I watched documentary long time ago where they made "what if" plays. They explored that construction method and while they agreed that it wasn't perfect - it was still state of the art of its time.
What I find interesting (also from that documentary) is that Titanic's original design had lifeboat seat for every passenger. There was larger number of davits and each davit had more than one boat. In addition to those there were collapsible lifeboats in bridge roof as back up (those were retained in final design). White Star Line dismissed that design, if I remember correctly reasons were: 1) it looked bad, 2) those boats blocked first class passengers sea views and 3) it was excessive to what was required by law.
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