professionals on vacation and families who might have booked first class passage on other ships, but were forced to board Titanic because of a coal strike. Third class (steerage) was mainly Irish immigrants and people of Mediterranean descent planning to make a new life in America.
             Once aboard the Titanic, her passengers would see the most modern and luxurious accomodations on any ocean. They included electric light and heat in every room, electric elevators (3 in 1st class, 1 in 2nd class), the first swimming pool seen on any liner, a squash court, a Turkish bath, a gymnasium, a six-story glass-domed grand staircase, a á l
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