My first tastes of seafaring life came in the early 2000s, firstly on a bargain-priced lap of the Baltic aboard the Costa Atlantica and then a brief spell on The World, the notorious cruising condo where paying passengers are treated as steerage by rich residents.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, he squeezed into steerage aboard the SS United States in 1965, at the age of 22, and arrived in New York for "some excitement" with just a Green Card (residency permit) and $200.
This, the film-maker seems to be saying, must be why that lunatic in steerage has it in for him he has the whole plane to himself.
Mr Tay in Singapore says TPP failure would be a disaster: "If the domestic issues of these two countries cannot be resolved, there is no sense that the US-Japan alliance can provide any kind of steerage for the region".
Under the steerage of his close ally, the chancellor George Osborne who is quietly doing his papers in an adjacent seat his coalition government's spending cuts and pro-business rhetoric, combined with ultra-loose monetary policy and labour laws, have done much to right this, producing decent growth and 2m new jobs.
But Harold Meyerson, the author of the Prospect story, has a much longer litany of complaints:A comparison of today's airliners with the great fin-de-siècle passenger ships would reveal a similar disparity in their treatment of passengers lavish accommodations for first class, and the bulk of the passengers in steerage.
She was one of the few girls who got out of steerage alive.
After a short stay in Zürich he immigrated to the United States in 1889, traveling by steerage.
With the aim of gathering material for her writing, she worked at various times as a waitress, as a nursemaid, and in a sweatshop, and she made a sea voyage to Europe in steerage.
(Subsequent claims that passengers in steerage were prevented from boarding boats, however, were largely dispelled.
Photos and artefacts are used to draw comparisons between life in steerage in the 1870s and the life of a flapper travelling first class in the 1920s.
