10 Unusual Facts You Didn't Know About The Titanic

7. There Were Only Two Bathtubs To Serve The Entire Third Class

Titanic Third Class
Bedford Lemere

While the Titanic'€™s First Class passengers enjoyed the luxury of spacious state-rooms, a swimming pool, and Turkish baths, the passengers in third class really had it rough. As if the cramped conditions and rats weren€™'t bad enough, there were only two bathtubs aboard to accommodate over seven hundred Third Class passengers.

While these conditions seem atrocious by our modern day standards, for 1912 they were considered amongst the best, and the Third Class accommodation on Titanic was even compared to Second Class accommodation aboard other ships. The Titanic even provided food for Third Class passengers, while it was common in 1912 for passengers of such a rank to bring their own food on ship voyages.

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