Her boat deck had six lifeboats, mounted on Welin-Maclachlan davits. The crane, davits and masts were painted blue. These are stored at sea in davits alongside the lifeboats. The vessel can also carry landing craft on port / starboard davits. All lifeboats but the collapsibles were slung from the davits, ready to be launched. Initially lifeboats were launched using davits, much as they are today. The torpedo destroyed one starboard and disabled the davits and falls of another. Compounding the disaster, "Titanic"s crew were poorly trained on using the davits (lifeboat launching equipment). Later LSIs and those being refitted were provisioned with luffing davits of a crossbeam type. By 08&colon;45, the list was so great that even the gantry davits were now inoperable. Normally landing ships were fitted with heavy-duty power-operated davits. All were mounted on Taylor's patent gravity davits. It must weigh less than ten long tons, enabling lifting by passenger liner davits. Normally British converted LSIs were fitted with heavy-duty power-operated davits. Above level 109, and up to tier 27, traditional cradles from davits are used.