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 Belfast visitors to the top of the gantry, where scenes of shipbuilding are displayed through audio and images. The visit continues on a six-seater car which takes the visitor on a ride through a recreation of a shipyard which moves through a scale replica of "Titanic"s enormous rudder. The Launch gallery portrays scenes from the Spring day when "Titanic" was launched into Belfast Lough, watched by 100,000 people. It overlooks the slipway from which "Titanic" was launched and a window enables visitors to see the slipways and docks as they appear now. The fourth gallery presents a large-scale model of "Titanic"