[fortheDeclaration]

I was wrong about the life boats not being lowered, but there weren’t enough of them and many of them were not filled.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Second Mate Charles Lightoller interpreted his orders for ‘Women and children first’ to mean ‘women and children only’ and so he stopped men getting on board even if there were no women and children left at the davits waiting to get in. (Lightoller survived the sinking btw).