Steerage

[Sonia]

in the past, the part of a ship in which passengers with the cheapest tickets travelled:

[Williebit]

the act of steering a ship

[MonicaLes]

the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship

[sumon9999]

The art of steering

[Monty]

The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accomodation with no individual cabins

[Sommer]

The effect of the helm on a ship

[Julian]

Steerage is a term for the lowest category of passenger accommodation in a ship. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century considerable numbers of persons travelled from their homeland to seek a new life elsewhere, in many cases North America and Australia. Many of those people were destitute in their homeland and had the minimum of resources to procure transportation. The term later widened to imply the lowest category of accommodation on a passenger vessel.

[Justin Bieber]

the act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship

[SergioAnigo]

the hinder part of a vessel; the stern

[sky]

properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare

[SanchoPn 0]

that by which a course is directed