BEFORE & AFTER: CRUISE SHIP CREW ACCOMMODATION…
History has not been kind to cruise ship crew. Logs show that living quarters were cramped and comforts were almost non-existent. Cruise ship crews were just not considered important enough to be given decent accommodation. Even on big cruise liners like the RMS Titanic, crew slept in large dimly-lit rooms, often dozens together stacked in bunk beds of three. Engineers, stokers, greasers and other similar crew were accommodated below decks, far away from passengers. Often the accommodation was not climate…