Travis those look like open lifeboats as opposed to the closed survival boats we are used to.
....Which is probably your point.
Would they require an operator to lower them, a la the Titanic?
I thought survival boats just required you to hit a big red button.
Not only does somebody have to control the descent in the davits, the system can only work in calm water with negligible rolling. In a hurricane, with the ship wallowing 45* to each side, those antique lifeboats are big fat zeroes. They cannot be used, period.