Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic the ship. The boats were supposed to be stocked with emergency supplies, but "Titanic"s passengers later found that they had only been partially provisioned. No lifeboat or fire drills had been carried out since "Titanic" left Southampton. A lifeboat drill had been scheduled for the morning before the ship sank, but was cancelled, allegedly because the ship's captain, Edward Smith, wanted to deliver one last Sunday service before he went into full retirement. Lists had been posted on the ship allocating crew members to particular lifeboat stations, but few appeared to have read them or to have known what they
Wreck of the RMS Titanic because he saw "original anti-fouling paint on the ship's hull, which was still working even after 74 years on the seabed" when he visited the "Titanic" in 1986. The location of the wreck is a considerable distance from the location transmitted by the ship's wireless operators before she went down. The initial location was given as , from the wreck. A corrected location was later transmitted as , but this too was inaccurate, by . "Titanic" is in two main pieces south-east of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland. The bow is located at and the stern is about to the south at