Antares Dupont
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I imagine the Abbotts were put into a 4-bed cabin, but was the last bed occupied by someone else, or did they have it free?
What kind of cabin?
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Arun Vajpey
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Good question because I have often wondered how WSL, Cunard and other major shipping lines adjusted to the ever-changing passenger demography of the time, particularly in Third Class, when the ships started to get almost full. I asked that question elsewhere a while ago but received no proper response.
The Abbott family consisted of 39 year old Rhoda and her sons - 16 year-old Rossmore and 13 year-old Eugene. So, I believe they were placed in a 4-bed cabin with one bunker empty. On the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic that would not have been too difficult because Third Class, like others, was not full. Theoretically, the only fourth person that they could have placed on the unused bunk would have been an elderly lady travelling alone, given the social mores of the day.
The Abbott family consisted of 39 year old Rhoda and her sons - 16 year-old Rossmore and 13 year-old Eugene. So, I believe they were placed in a 4-bed cabin with one bunker empty. On the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic that would not have been too difficult because Third Class, like others, was not full. Theoretically, the only fourth person that they could have placed on the unused bunk would have been an elderly lady travelling alone, given the social mores of the day.
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