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    Steerage is a term for the lowest category of passenger accommodation in a ship. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, considerable numbers of...
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    The Steerage is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed by some critics as one of the greatest photographs of...
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  • Look up steerage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Steerage is a lower deck of a ship Steerage may also refer to: Steering#Watercraft, the act of steering...
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    The Steerage Act of 1819, also called the Manifest of Immigrants Act, was an Act passed by the United States federal government on March 2, 1819, effective...
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    Steering (redirect from Steerage (ship))
    move its rudder, it does not respond to the helm and is said to have lost steerage. The motion of a ship through the water is known as making way. Boats on...
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  • joined the firm's New York office. The Black Star Line concentrated on the steerage trade and ultimately owned 18 sailing ships. Black Star was shut down in...
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  • Economy class, also called third class, coach class, steerage, or to distinguish it from the slightly more expensive premium economy class, standard economy...
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    they discover to their sorrow, and very natural discontent, that the foul steerage of some ocean-tossed ship is to form the filthy receptacle of persons,...
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    included professors, authors, clergymen, and tourists. Third-class or steerage passengers were primarily immigrants moving to the United States and Canada...
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    separated, with the 'new' steerage, more commonly referred to as third class, providing for 494 passengers, and the 'old' steerage providing for 270 passengers...
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    hindered the steerage passengers' escape. Some of the gates were locked and guarded by crew members, apparently to prevent the steerage passengers from...
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    class and over 1,000 steerage passengers; under Holland America Line it could carry 150 first class, 60 second class, and 800 steerage passengers' and as...
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    measuring about ten by seven feet (3 by 2 m). Forward of that was the steerage room, which probably housed berths for the ship's officers and contained...
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    quarters of especially high quality, as well as 810 in the inexpensive steerage class. She was one of the first liners to be lighted entirely by electricity...
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    of the pilot. The ability to change direction with altitude is called steerage. In the ideal case, in the northern hemisphere, wind direction turns to...
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  • She is best known for her role as eight-year-old Cora Cartmell, a young steerage passenger in the 1997 film Titanic who dances with Jack Dawson (Leonardo...
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    Stieglitz's The Steerage (1907)...
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    along the Starboard side of F-Deck Third Class (commonly referred to as steerage) accommodations aboard Titanic were not as luxurious as First or Second...
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    with iron-hulled screw-propelled ships. In 1852, Inman established that steerage passengers could be transported in steamships. Inman's City of Paris of...
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  • steward Annie Desmond. Watson brings Lady Manton's jewel case down to steerage, and Barnes is shocked to discover why. Meanwhile, Paolo startles Annie...
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    frigate, then the main ship of the Royal Navy, from "just sufficient to give steerage" to "that which no canvas sails could withstand". The scale was made a...
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    She was assessed at 8,831 GRT. Accommodation for 40 first class and 800 steerage class passengers was provided. Yamuna was built as yard number 600 by Sir...
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    Classic Alfred Stieglitz photograph, The Steerage (1907) shows unique aesthetic of black-and-white photos....
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  • screened at Close-Up Cinema in London. https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/steerage-247-festival_8173/ https://filmfreeway.com/assadzaman "Laundry by Assad...
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    2008. Retrieved 2008-12-11. A case of cholera developed today in the steerage of the Hamburg-American liner Moltke, which has been detained at quarantine...
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    Oceanic class, one of the most notable developments in steerage accommodations was the division of steerage at opposite ends of the vessels, with single men...
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    and emigrated to the United States in 1910. He sailed to New York as a steerage passenger on board the liner Philadelphia and was inspected at Ellis Island...
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  • ship is certified to carry and they're assigned to squalid conditions in steerage. They are all being deported back to Spain by the order of the Cuban dictator...
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  • they were met by members of the crew who endeavored to keep them in the steerage quarters. The women, however, rushed past the men and finally reached the...
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    photograph aboard Kaiser Wilhelm II called The Steerage. It records the crowded conditions in which steerage passengers, many of them emigrants, traveled...
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