| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
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.
==Lifeboats==
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 time, the Board of Trade's regulations stated that British vessels over 10,000 tons must carry 16 lifeboats with a capacity of , plus enough capacity in rafts and floats for 75% (or 50% in case of a vessel with watertight bulkheads) of that in the lifeboats. Therefore, the White Star Line actually provided more lifeboat accommodation than was legally required.〔Butler, p. 38〕 The regulations made no extra provision for larger ships because they had not been changed since 1894, when the largest passenger ship under consideration was only 13,000 tons, and because of the expected difficulty in getting away more than 16 boats in any emergency.
On the night of the sinking, Titanic's lifeboat complement was made up of three types of boats. The most numerous were the 14 standard wooden lifeboats, each long by wide, with a capacity of 65 persons each. Forward of them, one on each side of the ship, two smaller emergency boats, long, had a capacity of 40 persons each. Four Engelhardt collapsible lifeboats measuring long by wide had a capacity of 47 persons each; they had canvas sides, and could be stowed almost flat, taking up a comparatively small amount of deck space. Two were stowed port and starboard on the roof of the officers' quarters, at the foot of the first funnel, while the other two were stowed port and starboard alongside the emergency cutters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lifeboat Specifications )〕
After the ''Titanic'' disaster, recommendations were made by both the British and American Boards of Inquiry stating, in part, that ships would carry enough lifeboats for those aboard, mandated lifeboat drills would be implemented, lifeboat inspections would be conducted, etc. Many of these recommendations were incorporated into the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea passed in 1914
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the RMS Titanic」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|