So since we're discussing chamber pots, and we know they were used on the Titanic because they have been found in the debris,......just exactly how did one use the thing? I mean, was it set on a chair, and one sat on it, or was it set on the floor, and one squatted over it? Goodness, I can just imagine 'missing' as one fumbled in the dark in the middle of the night with the ship rolling. The stewards must've had quite a clean-up job, at least on occasion.
My mother has a very old English stoneware chamber pot from the mid-1800's. When I was growing up, she thought it was a soup tureen, and we occasionally used it as such on 'special occasions' until I was in college and realized that it was actually a chamber pot. Needless to say, my discovery gave us all a good laugh.