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It’s named after Harry Elkins Widener, who drowned on the Titanic because he couldn’t swim 50 yards to the lifeboats.
Cynics' translation: He's manning the lifeboats . Conspiracy theorists think Gates is organizing his commanders not to save the ship but to abandon it to the government.
And USAT reports that although post-Titanic, cruise ships are required to carry enough lifeboats to save all those aboard, this is not true of commuter ferries, dinner-cruise boats, gambling ships, whale-watching ships or airport shuttles, which usually do not.
Lifeboats have been constructed for the top dozen employees.
The lowlights include testimony that there were no binoculars on the ship and that J. Bruce Ismay, the president of the Titanic 's parent company, was on board and, despite the inadequate number of lifeboats and the woman-and-children-first policy, managed to get himself into one of them.