RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 "Titanic" Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship . It was the fourth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on April 14, 1912. With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. Boat No. 1 was one of two small "emergency" wooden cutters that were located one on each side of the "Titanic"; No. 1 was on the starboard side. Although they performed double-duty as lifeboats, their primary
RMS Titanic in popular culture The Full Story of the RMS Titanic". Robin Gardiner's 1995 and 1998 books "Riddle of the Titanic" and "Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank", put forward a conspiracy theory that the wreck is actually that of the RMS "Olympic", which supposedly the White Star Line had secretly switched with "Titanic" as part of an insurance scam. A variety of novels set aboard the "Titanic" has been produced over the years. One of the earliest was the German author Robert Prechtl's "Titanic", first published in Germany in 1937 and subsequently in Britain in 1938 and in the US in 1940 (translated