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
Titanic Memorial, Belfast It has been used as the site of annual commemorations of the "Titanic" disaster. For a while it was obscured by the Belfast Wheel that was removed in April 2010. It is now the centrepiece of a small "Titanic" memorial garden opened on 15 April 2012, the centenary of the disaster. Together with the garden, it is the only memorial in the world to commemorate all of the victims of the "Titanic", passengers and crew alike. Within days of the "Titanic" disaster, suggestions were put forward in Belfast that the local victims should be commemorated with a memorial. Belfast City