This proved to be a costly mistake, however, as the six seamen Lightoller sent below never returned, leaving him shorthanded in launching his lifeboats.
Secnd Officer Charles Lightoller, in preparing to take such action, ordered six seamen down below to open a gangway door located in this room.
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This would ease up the presumed complications lowering heavy lifeboats crowded with passengers and later allow them to be filled to full capacity. Once they were all safely in the water, they could then row to the gangway doors to take more passengers through them. It is possible that it opened during her descent to the bottom, her impact on the sea bed, or in her final minutes of the sinking by water pressure.Įarly in the sinking, the officers operated under the false belief that lifeboats would be safer to lower with fewer passengers in them. The 1986 expedition confirmed that one of the port-side doors was wide open and the inner doors pulled back. Some peopple have falsely concluded that this would have sped up her sinking. It was reported that during the sinking, Second Officer Lightoller ordered crew members to open the port side gangway doors on D-Deck for loading more passengers into the lifeboats nearer to sea level. The Olympic vestibules contained Third Class staircases that led down to E-Deck, which were eliminated on Titanic, and the elaborate wrought-iron grilles which covered the gangway doors were unique to Titanic. The Titanic's vestibules differed from those on the Olympic – they were reduced in size to make the Reception Room larger, and they eliminated the communicating corridor between the two sides in order to enlarge the elevator foyers. Separate corridors led off of the vestibules to the First-Class staterooms in the forward part of D-Deck. One set of French doors led into the Reception Room, but there was also a broad arched entryway leading to the elevators. The vestibules were partially enclosed areas in the same white Jacobean-style paneling, and each contained a large sideboard for storing china. There were sets of double gangway doors within the hull, screened by wrought-iron grilles. The Titanic and Olympic both featured duplicate entrance vestibules on their port and starboard sides within the D-Deck Reception Rooms. Around the corner from the Reception Room, forward of the Staircase, was the set of three First Class elevators which ran the length of the stairwell.
The Reception area would have been the first impression of the Titanic for many First Class passengers entering through the two semi-enclosed entry vestibules on either side of the staircase. An ornate candelabra rested on the middle railing at the base of the staircase, the light oak color of which contrasted warmly with the white-painted Reception Room. The First Class Dining Saloon on D-Deck was preceded by a large Reception Room, measuring 460 m 2 (4,951 sq ft), located at the foot of the forward Grand Staircase and encompassing the entire width of the ship. The First-Class Reception was a room located on D-Deck, at the foot of the Grand Staircase.
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