Q1: Why does the article refer to the Titanic as "she/her" rather than "it/its"?
A1: Per WP:SHE4SHIPS, the vessel is referred to with feminine pronouns. This is not to be changed without consensus. For discussion of Wikipedia's internal inconsistency and divergence with Encyclopedia Britannica's usage on this point, see Huddleston, Pullum, & Reynolds (2022), A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd ed., Cambridge: CUP, p. 14-16.
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The article refers to the ship as "She" when it is, in fact, an inanimate object. If it must be anthropomorphized, no gender can, nor should be, assigned to it arbitrarily. The ship is either an "it" or a "They" 66.23.113.178 (talk) 04:23, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It should be 1,496 deaths,712 survivors, and 2,208 total passengers.
The inquiries found that the ship seen by Californian was in fact Titanic and that it would have been possible for Californian to aid rescue; therefore, Captain Lord had acted improperly in failing to do so.[
The statement is correct and well footnoted: but it doesn't seem to be noted that, following the discovery of wreck, the position is now known, and not what the enquiry accepted, so the enquiry and 'subsequent arguments' are now seen in a different light. 124.187.219.128 (talk) 07:49, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Canterbury Tail: I don't care whether we use "ton" or "tonne" but I think we should spell it the same way in both the lead and the Lifeboats section. Normally the lead summarizes the article.
Also did you intend to revert the caption changes? We don't usually put a period at the end of a sentence fragment in a caption. GA-RT-22 (talk) 21:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah no you've got me there on the caption stuff. That was me not paying enough attention, you're quite right on those.
As for the ton vs tonne thing, the article is written in British English so it should be entirely consistent with that. That would mean then we should change those other sections to the tonne spelling as well. Since I reverted your edit, I'll take the responsibility of putting the captions back and make the other changes. Canterbury Tailtalk21:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In Lifeboat No. 2, Fourth Officer Boxhall lit several green roman candles, signaling Carpathia to make the way towards them. The ship pulled alongside No. 2, where a woman in the boat cried "Titanic has gone down with everyone aboard!" Boxhall quickly replied with "Shut up, lady!" Boxhall later apologized for his outburst, but both people involved agreed that it was acceptable, given the circumstances they had just endured and their current conditions.[1]
References
^Lord, Walter (November 1955). A Night to Remember. Holt Paperback.((cite book)): CS1 maint: date and year (link)
One by one, Titanic's lifeboats were picked up by Carpathia. Passengers from Collapsibles A and B were transferred into other boats and ferried to Carpathia. Collapsible C was towed by Lifeboat 14 to Carpathia, where Fifth Officer Lowe rigged up a sail. When asked how he knew, Lowe replied "Not all sailors are seamen, and not all seamen are sailors."[citation needed]
Most of this seems exceedingly trivial - note also that the section has a ((main)) link to Sinking of the Titanic, which is at least ten times as long and yet does not include either of these details, AFAI can tell. Suggest removal, maybe retaining the first sentence of the second of the paragraphs. - 2A02:560:594B:1A00:BD1F:6F7E:31D1:C590 (talk) 21:32, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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For the background section, it goes too far into detail about how the name Titanic was formed and seems to trail off a little bit. I think it would be more beneficial for it to be shortened into one paragraph instead of multiple huge ones. This way, it makes for an easier read and also sticks more to the point. Carenaadkins (talk) 21:46, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's a discrepancy regarding the capacity of the lifeboat davits, if I'm reading it all correctly.
From the lede: Titanic was equipped with 16 lifeboat davits, each capable of lowering three lifeboats, for a total of 48 boats.
From the Lifeboat section: Titanic had 16 sets of davits, each able to handle four lifeboats as Carlisle had planned. This gave Titanic the ability to carry up to 64 wooden lifeboats which would have been enough for 4,000 people57.135.233.22 (talk) 17:35, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]