Welcome to Steerage!

Being in Steerage on Titanic meant some of the best accomadations on the sea--for steerage. You weren't allowed, of course, to mingle with the first or second class passengers. That wasn't such a problem,however, for many of the passengers were Swedes, Finns, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Arabic....They were going to America to work and make better lives. The semi-idle worlds of the other classes probably meant little more than inspiration.

Note: The passengers portrayed in Titanic are real, but their stories are fabricated, right down to who lives and who dies--Jim Farrell and Kate McGowan died, Kate Mullins and Kate Murphey lived.

Jim Farrell was a third class passenger from Aughnacliff, County Longford, Ireland traveling to New York.

"Miss Catherine McGowan, sister of Mrs. Thomas McDermott, 8341 North Ashland Avenue, a Chicagoan who had been spending some months in Ireland and who was bringing back her niece, Miss Annie McGowan of County Mayo, was drowned. Annie was picked up by the Carpathia."

--The Chicago Tribune, April 21, 1912

Third Class Snapshots!

Meet the actors playing our passengers:

Jim Farell--Christopher Wells

Kate "1" McGowan--Jennifer Piech

Kate "2" Mullins--Emily Loesser

Kate "3" Murphey--Kim Lindsay

"Lost" Third Class

Original Kate 2: Erin Hill
Original Jim Farrell: Clarke Thorell
Original Kate "3" Murphey--Theresa McCarthy
When Theresa McCarthy went on leave, Kate Suber played Kate Three.

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