There were three types of lifeboats onboard - fourteen wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65 persons each, two rescue cutters holding forty persons, and four collapsible Engelhardt boats that could carry a total 47 persons.

The wooden lifeboats were made in Glasgow, Scotland by Murrays Boats, Ltd. The lifeboat davits used to lowers the boats into the water were designed and supplied by the Weliam Davit and Engineering Company Ltd, of London, England.

The Carpathia returned to New York with only 705 survivors.