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Third-Class passengers on Titanic were more likely to perish because their quarters were farther down below decks - and finding their ways up to the boat deck were difficult because the ship was hard to navigate.

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120 of the third class passengers on the titanic were?

120 of the third class passengers on the Titanic were Irish. They were emigrants making their ways to America, and very few of them survived the sinking.


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