emigrant ship
Relocation voyage craft
An emigrant ship is a vessel designed or used to transport emigrants—people leaving their home country to settle elsewhere.
The term appears most often in historical contexts, especially the mass migrations of the 19th and early 20th centuries: Thousands crossed the Atlantic on crowded emigrant ships.
Conditions aboard were often harsh, with passengers packed into steerage class.
- voyageJourney by sea
- sea voyageTravel across ocean waters
- steerageShip's cheapest quarters
- passageSegment of text
- transatlanticSpanning the ocean between continents
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emigrant shipcruise liner
Passenger ship for pleasure voyages
cruise ship · luxury liner · holiday cruise · royal yacht · ocean liner
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