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What class of passengers had the highest causality rate on the Titanic?
Those in steerage. In most shipwrecks of that era, passengers in steerage had the least chance of successful escape or rescue.
What is 'Ships steerage'?
The least expensive accommodations for passengers.
Deck for poorest ship passengers?
In the early days of passenger liners the cheapest tickets were in 'steerage', the lowest deck just above the bilges.
What were lowest class passengers on the titanic called?
3rd class, or steerage.
Why were third class passengers called steerage?
Because that is the area of the ship their living quarters were located.
What were conditions like in steerage?
Many people immigrating to the United States who had little money were steerage passengers. Steerage is the area of the lowest deck well beneath the main deck. Conditions were crowded, unsanitary, and there was little food and water available.
What was steerage?
the cargo compartment of a boat, where poorer immigrants traveled in
Why were 1st class passengers treated differently than steerage?
Because they paid a lot more for their passage!
Were third class passengers allowed on the upper decks?
well they were all draggy clothes like in steerage xxx
Where were most of the passengers when the titanic was sinking?
Pretty much all of the first and second class passengers were up on deck, but most of the third class steerage passengers were not allowed up on deck because most people back then had petty, nasty class distinctions.
What was the name of the class of passengers that had to go through Ellis island?
There were three passengers classes on most ships: first and second, which were cabin classes, meaning the passenger or family recieved a cabin or its own on board ship, and steerage class, where passengers slept in the hold (belowdecks) of the ship on bunks about 1/2 feet by 6 feet, with no privacy and no personal floor space or storage space. All steerage class passengers had to go to Ellis Island and pass medical tests and answer questions such as whether they were an anarchist.
How many of the passengers on the titanic were immigrants?
everyone aboard the steerage part of the ship
