Talk:Maria E. Beasley

Rewrite required
The article appears to have been written very subjectively, like a youngster's vague college essay. It would benefit from being written by a more competent author in order to give the article more credibility and weight. Maria Beasley, if a genunine entrepenurial inventer in her own right and not just a suffrogette pet icon, deserves a much better description of her life and endevours in her honour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.7.218 (talk) 09:29, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Rewrite complete. I think the article is much stronger now (and should give readers a clearer/more accurate picture of Beasley's life and work). Alanna the Brave (talk) 02:08, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

The Titanic lifeboats were radically different from her design...
...and collapsible boats go back to before she was born. Qwirkle (talk) 20:35, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Titanic rescue claims seem pretty uncertain
There are plenty of websites claiming that Beasley's liferaft design was used on the Titanic, but I haven't been able to find a credible source for this claim. The Titanic apparently used lifeboats, not liferafts, and while there were four collapsible lifeboats, it's not clear how closely they were based on Beasley's design (and those four boats probably would not have been large enough to save "the hundreds of passengers" mentioned in Titanic/Beasley stories). I also did a scan of digitized American newspaper archives from 1910-2020, and Beasley is not mentioned once in connection with the Titanic. While Beasley did indeed patent significant improvements to the design of liferafts, I think the Titanic story is likely just an Internet rumour -- if I find a good source that supports this, I'll add it into the article. Alanna the Brave (talk) 22:32, 17 December 2021 (UTC)