Titanic’s Third-Class Passengers
Titanic‘s third class accommodations were famously more luxurious than those on other ships. They had good food, clean rooms, even easy chairs and a piano. Survivors recall raucous parties almost every night, a treat for people who regularly toiled seven days a week. Tragically, most of the third-class passengers, seven hundred and nine (nearly 3/4) of them, died in the sinking. Some couldn’t navigate their way to the Boat Deck, or were reportedly gated below decks.
Stories from Titanic‘s third-class passengers are nowhere near as prolific as those of their first-class counterparts. These people were not well-to-do, who didn’t have social clout to make headlines in the aftermath of the sinking. After the tragedy, the third-class survivors scattered across the country to live relatively quiet lives, finally reaching America. Some went back to their homeland, having lost everything in the disaster. And some had even more adventures.
