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Steerage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This section was used to accommodate immigrants in the 18th and 19th century, as they couldn't afford to travel with the higher class passengers. The name "steerage" came from the fact that the control strings of the rudder ran on this level of the ship. This encouragement is sometimes referred to as "direction" or "steerage" and is usually in the form of financial incentives like lower copayments or deductibles for the patients. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steerage   (208 words)

Steerage Survivor Tells Story of Wreck : Washington Herald (1912) - 22 April 1912 Some of the heroism incident to the sinking of the leviathan will undoubtedly never be known, but one survivor, the first of the steerage survivors to reach Washington, tells a story of the sacrifice made by the third-class passengers that entitles them to a niche in the hall of fame alongside the bravest. The acme of heroism was reached when several of the single women, who had been conversing in a secluded corner, came forward and insisted that they remain behind, and that husbands be permitted to accompany their wives. It is probable that Miss Glynn will be summoned to testify before the Senate investigating committee, as she is the only steerage passenger who seems to have a clear conception of the conditions existing in the steerage on the morning of the wreck. www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/4146   (933 words)

Captains of Boston: Content Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Amidships and aft were many steerage staterooms, containing two to eight berths, largely taken up by families and groups of the single women. More­over in the steerage quarters there is al­ways a cask of ship’s biscuit — hardtack — open and a lunch on these with dried herring may be had at any hour of the day. That they preferred to go with the emigrants merely proves that as a result of compe­tition in ocean travel the steerage has been steadily improved, and that its accommo­dations are to-day in many instances su­perior to many of those of first-class cabins of a score or more years ago. www.kellscraft.com /Steerage/ModernSteerage.html   (3668 words)

The voyage out - Cabin and steerage - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Steerage passengers generally outnumbered those in the cabins by 10 to 1. Writing of the conditions in steerage, one cabin passenger commented, ‘Poor creatures, it is a horrible place between decks, so many people in so small a space, I wonder how they live’. Steerage was divided into three compartments: single men occupied the forward area, next to the crew’s quarters; single women were aft; and married couples were in the middle. www.teara.govt.nz /NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/TheVoyageOut/3/mi   (746 words)

Steerage Accommodations aboard steamships circa 1905 On the whole, the steerage of the modern ship ought to be condemned as unfit for the transportation of human beings ; and I do not hesitate to say that the German companies, and they provide not dishonest towards the steerage. They try to be brave now, struggling against homesickness and fear, until their faces pale, and one by one they are driven down into the hold to suffer the pangs of the damned in the throes of a complication of agonies for which as yet, no pills or powders have brought soothing. This practice of looking down into the steerage holds all the pleasures of a slumming expedition with none of its hazards of contamination; for the barriers which keep the classes apart on a modern ocean liner are as rigid as in the most stratified society, and nowhere else are they more artificial or more obtrusive. www.steamships.org /sdc/steerage_accommodations1905.htm   (3423 words)

Three Monkeys Without a voice. Dublin band Steerage turn to the tunes. Steerage's recently released e.p smash them all to bits has received critical acclaim from a number of quarters (Three Monkeys Online included). There's a Celtic Rock band in Canada called Steerage also and I think they're coming from the point of view of that sort of music being played in the steerage sections of the ocean liners. At the time Steerage still had a vocalist and this was me and Donnchadh's way of writing some instrumental music. www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable.php?id=31   (2675 words)

Steerage Steerage is the Naval Honorary of the Department of Naval Science at Auburn University. Membership is open to all NROTC students and Mariners who are in good standing with the unit and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities, aptitude, and superior academic performance. Steerage invites it's new candidates for membership each winter and offers full membership to selectees of this group in the spring. www.auburn.edu /student_info/steerage   (130 words)

[No title] Steerage has played over 100 gigs in the past 3 years, and have no plans on slowing down. October/03 - Steerage has started to record it's first CD in the Fall of 2003. This CD will be collection of all tradition tunes that Steerage loves to play. www.steerage.ca /News.htm   (520 words)

Sparks's Titanic FAQs According to the 1882 Act, the owners and master of an emigrant ship were charged, under penalty of law, to enforce the restriction of steerage passengers to those decks alloted for their use, for the duration of a voyage. In contrast, steerage passengers were required to be held in their spaces aboard ship until individual inspections by Health Inspectors were completed. Care was taken to protect the welfare of women in steerage, and regulations were very specific about keeping the ship's crew from intruding upon the areas assigned to steerage. titanic.marconigraph.com /mgy_faqs.html   (1281 words)

United States Senate Inquiry - Day 13 - Testimony of Daniel Buckley - Third Class Passenger - ss Titanic.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) There was one steerage passenger there, and he was getting up the steps, and just as he was going in a little gate a fellow came along and chucked him down; threw him down into the steerage place. The first-class deck was higher up than the steerage deck, and there were some steps leading up to it; 9 or 10 steps, and a gate just at the top of the steps. All the steerage passengers went up on the first-class deck at this time, when the gate was broken. web.titanicinquiry.org:81 /USInq/AmInq13Buckley01.html   (1556 words)

Alfred Stieglitz: The Steerage (33.43.419) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) As proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and publisher of the photographic journals Camera Notes and Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz was a major force in the promotion and elevation of photography as a fine art in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Steerage is considered Stieglitz's signature work, and was proclaimed by the artist and illustrated in histories of the medium as his first "modernist" photograph. The Steerage began its life as a masterpiece four years after its creation, with Stieglitz's publication of it in a 1911 issue of Camera Work devoted exclusively to his photographs in the "new" style, together with a Cubist drawing by Picasso. www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/stgp/hod_33.43.419.htm   (250 words)

Worcester Art Museum - The Steerage The magazine was named after his New York gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue, where he promoted modern art- primarily photography, painting, and sculpture. Using a hand-held four-by-five camera, he captured on an eastbound Atlantic crossing this poignant picture of steerage passengers who, having been rejected by United States immigration officials, were being sent back to Europe. Attracted to the abstract compositional elements of the scene, Stieglitz recalled: "I saw shapes related to one another- a picture of shapes, and underlying it, a new vision that held me: simple people; the feeling of the ship, ocean, sky. www.worcesterart.org /Collection/American/1978.76.html   (178 words)

B Thus the owner of the vessel had not the least concern or interest in the welfare or good treatment of the passengers; all he looked for 11 was the payment of the stipulated price for that part of the ship which he had let. The steerage passengers were simply additional and unwelcome freight; they had to follow the directions of the owner, and were subordinate to what he considered his more important interests. Thus a ship which measured 1,000 tons and had a steerage of only 500 tons, could nevertheless take steerage passengers for the whole tonnage, that is, 400 instead of 200. www.h-net.org /~child/Bremner/Volume_I/46_P3_II_B_The_Crossing.htm   (4499 words)

Some Teachable Ironies about the Alfred Stieglitz photo The Steerage (1907), on the Cover of The Heath Anthology of ... If invited to speculate, we, and our students, might guess that the figures in The Steerage are buoyed up by a sense of promise but weighed down by a sense of uncertainty about the future and, perhaps, with a sense of grief over abandoning their culture and their homelands. Among men, while only 4.3 percent and 8.9 percent of Jews and Irish, respectively, returned to their homelands, 45.6 percent of Italians, 51.9 percent of Spanish, and 65 percent of Russians took the same trip that Stieglitz captures so memorably. In the era of cultural studies, The Steerage may help our students see that photography, no less than literature, is a medium that invites everyone's projections and constructions. college.hmco.com /english/heath/harris.htm   (1191 words)

Titanic: Demographics of the Passengers Many steerage passengers who survived did so only by reaching the last of the lifeboats that were launched. Annie Kelly, an Irish steerage passenger, said that the stewards not only did not wake the steerage passengers with an alarm but told alarmed third class passenger who came up to the deck to go back down as there was no danger. A high percentage of the men in steerage who got to lifeboats reached them only by leaping onto them after they were launched or by scrambled aboard the two emergency lifeboats as they floated off moments before the Titanic finally went down. www.ithaca.edu /staff/jhenderson/titanic.html   (3045 words)

CLUAS Indie EP Reviews: Steerage 'Smash them all to bits' Steerage are a Dublin based three piece dealing in guitar/bass/drums instrumentals. The rest of the EP's tracks - 'No two strings are the same', 'Is this thing on?' and 'One trip around the sun' are very good in a Durutti Column / Let's Active / Love Tractor kinda way but the three tracks are absolutely crying out for a human voice. They're a musical tease, you almost hold your breath waiting for a voice to be heard over the twists and turns and loops of Steerage's melodies, and any singer worth his / her salt would die to put down vocal tracks over this band's intriguing arrangements. www.cluas.com /music/albums/steerage.htm   (321 words)

t r u t h o u t - Bill Fletcher Jr. | The Titanic of Our Era One may remember, as portrayed in the film Titanic, that the passengers in steerage were literally locked in, trapped like rats such that they could not escape the rising water. After all, those in steerage were considered a less-relevant population than the rich on the upper decks. There was recognition, now openly being admitted, that tens of thousands of the poor of that city might be left stranded in the face of a major hurricane while the rich could climb into their SUVs and escape. www.truthout.org /docs_2005/091005G.shtml   (1048 words)

Telstar 28 Trimaran - Exterior - Steerage The T2's steerage is perfectly balanced with literally no weather-helm - requiring only a light touch on the tiller to keep you right on course. The beauty of the T2's steerage design makes itself known when you need it most. Sailing in shallow water is no problem as the 4' 3" rudder automatically lifts to enable you to keep going in as little as 1' of water. www.geminicatamarans.com /Exterior_Telstar_Steerage.htm   (241 words)

Steerage – Music at Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Steerage, now kaput, were an instrumental rock band based in Dublin, Ireland operating from around 2000-2004. In fact, as unfortunate witnesses of early gigs will attest, Steerage started life as a dodgy alt rock band with voca... Steerage might not be making music anymore, but if they are, you can help keep other users informed by adding new events when they're announced. www.last.fm /music/Steerage   (140 words)

Amazon.com: The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage: Books: Evelyn Wilde Mayerson,Ronald Himler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Grade 3-6-- The cat in question is Pitsel, a stray adopted by nine-year-old Chanah when her family passed through Marseilles on their way from Poland to America. The year is 1910, the family is poor, and steerage is the only passage they can afford. Living in the steerage section of a steamship bound for America, Chanah tries to keep her newly found cat a secret. www.amazon.com /Cat-Who-Escaped-Steerage/dp/0684192098   (687 words)

The Steerage (Getty Museum) Twenty-five years after making this photograph, Alfred Stieglitz recalled the moment in vivid detail, no doubt aided by the information provided within the frame. He had wandered down from the first-class deck to survey the jumbled scene of teeming passengers in the steerage, or economy class, section, which contrasted sharply with "the mob called the ‘rich'" that he had left behind. Stieglitz's compressed composition emphasized the closeness of space and bustling conditions in the steamer's lower-level accommodations. www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=69296   (104 words)

Rare White Star Line Steerage Advertising Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) One side has a nice illustration of what appears to be the MAJESTIC (1890). The other side has an illustration of the steerage accommodations. Interestingly enough, the edges of this card appear to be irregularily trimmed with parts of the wording cut off, but this was most likely caused by the printing process used. www.oceanliner.com /wscard.htm   (77 words)

The New York Review of Books: STEERAGE What is depicted, according to Towers, is a group of immigrant Jews approaching the promised land, i.e., the United States. If this is so, it is ironic that this photograph has become a symbol for the very opposite of what is in the picture. Alfred Kazin's autobiography reveals his perfect awareness that "The Steerage" does indeed depict passengers on an eastbound voyage—a fact of which I, as his reviewer, was also made aware. www.nybooks.com /articles/8112   (332 words)

Page 6 - Steerage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The ships that brought the emigrants to America in the 1890s segregated the passengers by class. The ship, Campania, that brought the Jones family from Wales to New York carried 1000 third class or "steerage" passengers. Once each day, the steerage passengers were allowed to leave their cramped quarters for a walk on deck. home.att.net /~sarankin/jones/page6.html   (84 words)

After Steerage on Lower Deck - HMVS Cerberus After Steerage on Lower Deck - HMVS Cerberus The After Steerage was where the Firing Battery was located. The battery was intended to provide the current to detonate the torpedo (mine) that exploded prematurely on March 5 1880. home.vicnet.net.au /~cerberus/virtualtour/location41.html   (92 words)

Synonym for steerage (n) - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta Synonym for steerage (n) - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta Search for "steerage" in all of MSN Encarta Everest: Beyond the Limit on the Discovery Channel encarta.msn.com /thesaurus_561589060_561588984/prevpage.html   (64 words)

Titanic's 'Steerage Band' Returning to UW-RF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Titanic's 'Steerage Band' Returning to UW-RF Back for the second year by popular demand, the Irish quintet Gaelic Storm, which was featured as the "Steerage Band" in the movie Titanic, will perform at UW-River Falls on Monday, Oct. 4. The thundering tunes of the band attracted Randy Gerston, the music producer of James Cameron's Titanic. Gerston wanted something raw, loose, and danceable to capture the personality of the steerage passengers. www.uwrf.edu /news_bureau/917991.html   (328 words)

WorkingForChange-Steerage in the sky It's enough to make you want to stay home. If you are seated in coach (or steerage, as I have come to think of my regular seating), you can no longer expect a meal, even on an international flight. On a recent flight to Central America, Delta Airlines served those of us in coach something the flight attendants generously called a "snack" -- a processed cheese spread, four crackers and two Oreo cookies. www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=19151   (710 words)

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