Passenger Lists: Common Classifications of Passengers
Many passenger lists were prepared by class of passenger. The earlier passenger lists often printd separate lists for each class of passenger carried by the vessel. Later passenger lists often combined classes - especially Cabin Class and Tourist / Third Class. It was very unusual for ships to print all classes of Passengers in one list - unless all Passengers they were carrying were of one class by design.
- Saloon Passengers
- First Cabin or First Class
- One Class or Cabin Class
- Second Cabin or Second Class
- Tourist Third Cabin
- Tourist Class
- Third Class
- Steerage or Between (Tween) Decks
- Sea Post Clerks (Often housed in crews quarters)
- Stowaways
Curator’s Note
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