3rd class passengers

Third Class, or Steerage as they're also referred to, consisted of the ordinary folk, the common people, and mostly immigrants looking for a better life in America. There was a seperation between the single men, which was the largest group, who were housed at the front, usually the bow of the ship, and the single women and families with men, women and children that had their cabins in the stern of the ship. Strict seperation was also from the other classes, because Third Class and were prevented in doing so by several gates troughout the ships, many of which would cost them their life later.

They were treated with less respect than the other classes, and very little in fact, that they were not aided enough in getting off the ship safely.

Nevertheless the service they got on Titanic was very good, and for them it was often a nice experience, it was at least igher, healthier standards than on other, usually smaller ships. Many of the accounts of Third Class Passengers give you the most interesting insights in the events of the disaster, like Eva Hart, Anna Sjablom and Eugene Daly.

The entire Third Class, that could house over 1100 people had only 2 bath tubs available to them. Their cabins were way better than on other ships, but still pretty spartan and often consisted of 4 wooden, square bunks, a standard washtable or sink, a bit of paint on the walls but still pretty much visible popnails and rivets in the ceiling. The interior was usually just white. They had more cramped cabins than other classes, allthough there were a few very cramped Second Class Cabins as well, as Imanita Shelley and her mother could agree on.

There were rougly 700 Third Class passengers on the ship at the time. That's just about the same numbers as total people that surivived. But most of those survivors didn't include the steerage people. Luckily, still a few women (76), men (75) were saved and some of them made it off thanks to either instinct, persistence, clever tricks, hiding, or being led by some friendly Third Class stewards, and told their stories later on, some exaggerated, simply made up things and others were probably under huge.