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
RMS Titanic in popular culture May 1912 and subsequently shown internationally, it was a major success. However, it is now considered a lost film, as the only known prints were destroyed in a fire in March 1914. Gibson's film competed against the German film "In Nacht und Eis" ("In Night and Ice"), directed by the Romanian Mime Misu, who played the "Titanic"s Captain Smith. It was largely shot aboard the liner SS "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria". The fatal collision was depicted by ramming a model of "Titanic" into a block of floating ice. The impact knocks the passengers off their feet and causes pandemonium on board.