Steerage and Third Class on Ocean Liners 

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Today, Steerage has made a comeback on airliners.

I came to America on a ship with my parents in 1955. I was 6 and my memory of the voyage is positive.

3rd class during the 19th century: putting a lot of people inside a very small space Ryanair: putting a lot of people inside a very small space and make them pay to bring their bags

0:52 - 3 pounds sterling in 1880 would be about 360 pounds today, it was a LOT of money

i always book a 3rd class cabin on the Queen Mary 2 when I do the transatlantic crossing. It's more comfortable than 1st class on a plane.

Thanks for this video. It allowed me to understand how my ancestor traveled from Jamaica. In 1885.

imagine being stuck on a boat with that many other people... no cell phones... no devices... no movies... Nothing to do but talk with other strangers on the boat and hear their stories, jokes and tales... eat, poop and sleep XD

6:28 they even have a net at each bed, for you to put your phone in. amazing.

My Great grandmother arrived in NY in 1886 on the Britannic. Steerage along with her parents and siblings. She said it was awful. In 1925 she sailed on the Olympic 2nd class from NYC to Southampton and 1st class from Southampton to NYC. Much different.

My family immigrated to the USA from the Netherlands around 1960. Many people wanted to leave the country and it's colony Indonesia. The Dutch government purchased three former Victory merchant marine ships from the USA and converted them to passenger ships. The accommodations were basic yet perfectly adequate. The food was good. The voyage took ten days to cross the Atlantic. The conditions on that ship resembled third class on the newer, smaller ships in this video.

After hearing my late father relate his experience on troop ships during World War Two,I don’t think late19th steerage was all that bad.

What the hell is a one percent pound?

Travelling Steerage looks rather rough, but travelling third class honestly looks better than any way I've traveled in the 21st century.

This is great! If you plan to do any more on the Golden Age of Ocean Liners, one about the all the classes might be interesting (where it came from, how it persisted, the societal implications of them, why the offered what they did, etc.). Comparing ships of the age also might be really cool.

This video would go crazy back in the day

I enjoyed the video, keep on making them.

Love the videos of the old ships!

Cool channel. Looking forward to future content!

Really enjoy your stuff mate. Hope to see more. Thanks for uploading.

I'm glad I found your channel. Great work ! I love your videos. You are very knowledgeable and animation is great. Thumbs up!

I never knew that I was interested in this aspect of history until I found your chanel!!! Well Done!!! Liked and subbed immediately!!!!!

Made a couple of voyages between Hawaii and Los Angeles in 1957 & 1961 in Dormitory cabins and Bathrooms down the hall. Almost like Steerage Passengers!!!

Great vlog. The reason for the rise in standard in 3rd class was due to an outbreake of difteria onboard a Hapag Lloyd ship in the 1890s. Many people died and the ship was forced to return to Hamburg. After that the 3rd class got a huge makeover in cabin and meal service.

You gave a great voice for this series.

Thank god my family came with their own boat.

I enjoyed that, I rarely watch a video to the end. You win!

Steerage food actually looks pretty good ngl

Awesome video! Thank you

Great video!! Excellently written and read!!

Wow thanks for the great video. It was very interesting.

Nice work thanks

Very interesting. Thank you.

This video is actually genuinely underated and damm

Top video! Thank you! 👍👍👍

Well done presentation, content & delivery.

You date Oceanic (II) as 1889, but she was built in 1899.

Just wanted to say keep it up, your videos are great and I expect you'll really pick up in subs soon. Thanks for doing this!

Thank you - nicely and clear explanation .

Incredible video!

Excellent

Super interesting and informative.

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Cool video and love the footage

Nice, I found you out from your ocean liner vs crisis ship video and I plan on checking out your next video

Love the content, as a history grad, I search for entertaining content like this on RU-vid, and yours is some of the best. Would love if you could leave links to websites, othsr videos, or even book suggestions at the end of videos so we can find out more! Thanks for making your vids

8:48 Actually, ocean liners havent disappeared entirely. The Queen Mary 2 is a ocean liner and is still in service.

Great video!

I guess the saying, "they don't make them like they used to" meant something more positive back then.

Those food rations were actually bomb.😍😍 Super healthy, too.

It's worth comparing the food of the 1880s vs what was available on Titanic in 1912. Such as on April 14th, they started the day with ham and eggs, oatmeal, smoked herring, fresh bread with butter and marmalade, with a choice of tea and coffee. For dinner, it was a classic roast beef with gravy served with sweet corn and boiled potatoes, with rice soup and fresh bread to start. For dessert, they had fresh fruit and plum pudding. For tea, they had a selection of cold meats, cheeses, fresh bread, presumably a rice pudding made with stewed figs, and of course tea. For a late night supper, you could have your choice of gruel (which was more like modern cream of wheat), cheese, and "cabin biscuits", which are basically crackers. Simple, but tasty. Not much different than a modern Sunday dinner for most people. Third class were also provided with water fountains in public areas, and even a bar for men to order drinks in the 3rd Class Smoke Room.

So based on this video, the Third Class on the Olympic Class Ships were definitely luxurious.

the good old days... when we rode in the bilge

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My dad and I booked a third class room on a curse ship in the early 2000s. We first booked a room without windows. Because there were rooms with windows available when we arrived, we were given one with no extra cost. Our room had two single beds and a private bathroom with a shower. We had maid service each day. We were able to eat all we wanted in any restaurant on the ship including the fancy dinning room with no extra cost. We had access to pools, library, movie theater, shows, gym, activities, and guided tours at no extra cost. The only things that were extra cost was shopping on and off the ship, casino, laundry facilities and our own private tours. A lot different then it was in the early 1900s. My dad was old enough to have steerage at the same cost if he had been on a cruise when he was a child. Times have really changed.⛴️⛴️⚓⚓

Just like being in a Weatherpoons on a Friday night

Nice one mate👌🏻

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Would be very interested to a more in depth look at the other classes of travel

This channel is underrated

Transatlantic Passage Times: AD1760: >1000 hours AD1840: ~330 hours AD1920: ~110 hours AD2000:

I'd love to learn more about what it was like onboard paddle-steamers and riverboats. Would you consider making a video about that please?

To be fair this is still better than what you get on modern ships for 3rd class or simply "deck passage" like on ferrys. Where you don't even get a bed or allocated meals/water but solely the right to be on board.

My family came from Asian to Hawaii in 1906. They rode in steerage with 150 other people . The Pacific Ocean travelers did not have the option of larger ships...

Bring back my ocean liners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to set up the inflight entertainment on Business Class (first class) seats of aircraft for international air carriers Like aerlingus, Lufthansa, TurkishAir, Аэрофлот etc We never use 3rd Class to describe it or even Coach, its Tourist Class and 1st class is Business class. The Seats for Lufthansa business class were i think of a proprietary design and consisted of parts of different matset ials from fabrics and textiles to aluminum, steel, and polymers. There were over 1500 individual plastic parts alone per the the business classs seats for Lufthansa. These seats are big and require some tricky engineering to allow different parts to tuck/stow and extend from aN upright seat to a small flattened surface or bed. The motors and series of different gears and rods and other surfaces required to do all the articulating was fascinating and very complicated. The IFE or in-flight entertainment was starting to use more fiber optic lines instead of copper for transporting data to and from the screen/monitor to the cpu located in a small flat box deep beneath the seat closest to the floor and that monitor is situated in the bacl of the seat in front of you. I havent worked there for a few years but its interesting how you haffta ground your connections on something that's 5 miles up going 200mph. I think there's some onboard 3 phase system for allowing that

Ironically that picture shown at 0:23 was actually taken sometime between 1928 and 1937, not the 1880s. Also, the ship in the photograph, the SS _Gülcemal,_ began her life as the White Star Liner _Germanic._ Also, if anyone wants to know what it was like to travel on the _Oceanic_ class, the first modern ocean liners, here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YKdYY8qD2YE.html

I like this channel-new scriber!

Every present dweller of US must thank the ancestors for their braveness to make such terrible voyage .

1:54 3% pounds of bread... 1% pounds of bread... 1% pounds of oatmeal... 1% pounds of peas... You're mistranslating something.

The third class is still around on pretty much every cruise ship. It is no longer referred to as third-class but it is there. Take a modern cruise ship for example. There are inside cabins following that there are outside cabins which are the cheapest and going up from there you have veranda cabins and finally suites. Depending on the price you wish to pay. Cunard is still a class structured ship. There are three dining rooms and based on what cabin you book determines what dining room you are assigned too. The Britannia is equal to the third class, the princess grill is second and the queen grill is first.

Can you do a video about 2nd class? It’s really hard to find a video about it.

My family came from lovely Germany in steerage, in 1900. It must have been rough and it took them exactly 30 days to cross the Atlantic.

My Norwegian Grand father and mother plus some of my uncles and aunts paid their way across by pealing potatoes etc.

have you ever herd of ss Keewatin she wasn't an ocean liner but she's the last great passenger ships from the Edwardian era . the reason why i mentioned her was because she is probably the closest you can get to know that an ocean liner may have looked like with the only difference being that you are on the ship that's not the Queen Mary from 112 years ago she is currently docked in port Nichole, Canada. would you be able to do a video about ss Keewatin

I'd like to see cruse ships do some ocean-lining again

I love Economy even more now

Can you do one on second class? I feel they’re over looked.

Regarding the rations. If I'm hearing this correctly, the rations for one adult per day would feed me for 3 days. I don't think I could do the bathroom regime

If that's what they got to eat per day per person then they where better fed than some folks today! PS great video .

Reminds me of a TV commercial from the 1970's. "Nobody is second class on Southern (Airlines)." Love your videos. Great Work!

I'll take a 3rd class ticket on RMS Olympic thank you very much.

Interesting...

Interesting content, but the narration is like a robot in a race.

Did you buy the Titanic deck plans from encyclopedia titanica or do you know a way to get them for free in full res? THX

imagine having to bring your own mattress

You can really see in the 1880s that things have moved on just a little bit from the conditions of sailing vessels in the preceding centuries- very little. A faster, more robust ship, but that modest reduction in travel time and increase in safety was about it. Otherwise, might as well be a slightly bigger Mayflower.

So, can you do a similar video but for all classes on ocean liners between 1830 and 1870, especially the black sheep of that time being the Great Eastern

“Brickyard,” I’m getting Rjet flashbacks.

Could you do a video about the SS Great Eastern, the Great Western, and the Great Britain?

So, stupid question looking at these pictures of steam ships - what are the masts for?

Interesting

It’s like Butlins without the sea sickness.

Hell on the highseas😂😂😂😂😂

Where can I find a version of this for the 1600s and around 1780?

What is meant by 1% pound of beef, etc?

It was normal back then to have food for a year on you. Farmers would always have enogh food till next harvest so they knew how much a their family would eat so the rest could be sold of an not have to rot. It was also normal to have everything else you needed onu.

What's the background thumping?

Actually, the French Line NORMANDIE of 1935 had First, Tourist (second) and Third.

moon crickets were so well behaved back then!