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The first Lifeboats Launched 60 minutes after the Collision

There was an agonizing delay before the lifeboats were launched as 60 minutes separated the time the Titanic collided with the iceberg, and the time the first lifeboats were launched into the water from the ship. This happened because even though the ship’s alarms were sounded to let everyone know they had to evacuate the ship, a lot of the passengers didn’t think it was something serious at first.

Some of them decided wrongly to remain in their chambers rather than go out into the cold on the deck. There were also some that didn’t know where to go when the alarms went off and others who thought it was maybe just a drill, after all, no one could have imagined this would happen on the first voyage.