Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic The sinking of the RMS "Titanic" resulted in the following changes in maritime policy. Alexander Carlisle, Harland and Wolff's general manager and chairman of the managing directors, suggested that "Titanic" use a new, larger type of davit which could give the ship the potential to carry 48 lifeboats; this would have provided enough seats for everyone on board. However, the White Star Line decreed that only 20 lifeboats would be carried, which could accommodate about 38% of those on board when the ship was filled to capacity. At the
RMS Titanic in popular culture backdrop for a romance in Danielle Steel's 1991 novel "No Greater Love", in which a young woman becomes the sole caregiver for her siblings after her parents and fiancee die in the sinking. In 1996 NBC adapted it into a TV movie of the same name, which Anderson characterises as "rather sterile and perfunctory." "Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912" by Ellen Emerson White is a fictional diary of a girl travelling on the Titanic - part of the Dear America series, in which each book is a fictional diary set at