steerage

I have a question. If a third class couple were married, with no children, would they be berthed together or separately? I understand single women had cabins in the stern, while singe men had cabins in the bow. I've also heard that even families traveling with children would be in segregated...

The Royal Mail Ship Carpathia, along with many others, carried many immigrants in mediocre conditions. However, their struggle has been overlooked for so long. What was third class like on the Carpathia?

I have a family story passed down that my great-aunt booked passage, but cancelled. I'm assuming there would be no records of people who booked and later cancelled, but it made me wonder if tickets were even assigned to the individual at that time or if they just sold tickets and then took the...

A google search for Titanic's third class staterooms produces images of what looks like a bunk room with a water fixture at one end. Its height suggests "toilet" but it looks more like a sink. Were they one in the same in 1912? Did these shared bunk rooms actually have open toilets at one end...

As you see above, that is a picture of the SS Spree's promenade deck. This ship was used by some of my family on October 31, 1901 to head from Bremen, Germany to New York Harbor. Because I am intrigued at this ship more than I was of the SS Leipzig (sadly nothing else could be found from...

Cabin Allocations In the Steerage section of these Cabin Allocations, I found the Joseph/Peter family with an unknown deck, but with the cabin number to be no.69. The most awkward of this is that when it said Section E, I only found a cabin on F Deck. WE HAVE JUST REVEALED THAT THE...

I'm hosting a dinner party based on food served in the third class dining saloon, and have had no trouble finding recipes, but am struggling to find appropriate music to play. I've a few Irish pieces (fiddles and the like), but not enough for a whole evening, and I think it might be a bit too...