steerage
- n the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
- n the act of steering a ship
- It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy .
- Alexander Norman McKay, 21, born and bred in Pontypridd, Wales, able coal miner, sailed into New York harbor in the steerage of the White Star liner Homeric.
- Sarnoff was born in Uzlian, Russia, in 1891 (the year the electron was christened; he often bragged they were born the same year) and traveled steerage to New York nine years later .