Steerage refers to the lowest decks of a ship.
This area of the ship was once used to accommodate passengers traveling on the cheapest class of ticket, and offered only the most basic amenities, typically with limited toilet use, no privacy, and poor food.
The name "steerage" came from the fact that the control strings of the rudder ran on this level of the ship
Read here A First-Hand Account by H. Phelps Whitmarsh with Illustrations by A. Castaigne.
Read here A First-Hand Account by H. Phelps Whitmarsh with Illustrations by A. Castaigne.
This area of the ship was once used to accommodate passengers traveling on the cheapest class of ticket, and offered only the most basic amenities, typically with limited toilet use, no privacy, and poor food.
The name "steerage" came from the fact that the control strings of the rudder ran on this level of the ship
Read here A First-Hand Account by H. Phelps Whitmarsh with Illustrations by A. Castaigne.
Crossing the Atlantic.
These master drawings are from a chronicle about the inmigrant steerage conditions in 1898.
Read here A First-Hand Account by H. Phelps Whitmarsh with Illustrations by A. Castaigne.
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