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Show 'ill 'NIC CARRIED FEWJJFEBOATS ACCOMMODATIONS FOR EMERGENCY EMER-GENCY HAD EEN PROVIDED FOR HALF OF PASSENGERS. Many Llvei Probably Sacrificed Because Be-cause of Insufficient Supply of Boat On Big Liner Which Was Regarded Re-garded as Unilnkable. New York.-Statlstkal Information of the lifi-8tvlrK apparatus, of the Olympic, sister ship of tin Titanic, was given out Tuesday by the bureau of Inspection of steam vessels. Fin-urea Fin-urea for the Titanic are not available, but an the ships are almoitt Identical In Hl.e It 18 not likely that tbeir equipment materially differs. The Olympic hua sixteen llfelionts and four rafts, calculated to accommodate accommo-date 1,171 persons. This iiieatiN about one-third or the total number of passengers pas-sengers and crew together, which Is 3,447, can be accommodated. It is ta id at the bureau thai no ship Ih required re-quired to have sufficient bomroom to accommodate nil its complete passenger passen-ger and crew list. The Olympic carries 3,4.1.1 life preservers pre-servers and forty-eight lifebuoys, and these equipments are made In compliance compli-ance with the regulations of the Hiit-iMh Hiit-iMh iHiard of trade. The I'nlted States bureau has no power except to hco that each steamer meets the requirements require-ments of Its home government. The apparent fact that file Titanic lifclioata were not sufficient to accommodate accom-modate the ship's personnel is causing caus-ing much comment In London, although al-though the papers are chary of discussing dis-cussing the subject. The law does not provide the nuipber of bouts the largest ships shall carry. It applies only to shls displacing up to lo.ttoo tons, as It was passed before the present great liners were designed, |
