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Steerage
Steerage meaning
The art of steering. | The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins. | The effect of the helm on a ship.
Synonyms of Steerage
Example sentences (8)
For lack of adequate lookouts, life jackets and lifeboats are now needed in quantity, for steerage and first-class alike.
The police eventually helped Jones sell the “large quantity of clothing” he had abandoned at an inn, and used the proceeds to help him buy a steerage ticket on the ship Cambria back to New York.
Later that year, New York State’s quarantine officer, William Jenkins, diverted to remote islands hundreds of impoverished East European, Jewish passengers coming from Europe and Asia in the steerage section of ships.
Headway speed is defined as slow, idle speed, or speed only fast enough to maintain steerage on course.
The first-class passengers are enjoying every luxury, while those in steerage are miserable and sea sick in the lowest decks.
Art Classic Alfred Stieglitz photograph, The Steerage shows unique aesthetic of black-and-white photos.
Despite being of a higher status in society than Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon, she is kind, and helps row the boat and even looks after the steerage passengers.
In 1850 the cost of steerage passage to the United States or Canada was about £5, compared to £40 for the voyage to Australia.