The account of Romanian brutality helps explain the willingness of Jews to risk their lives on ill-equipped, overcrowded ships.

As captain, he was one of the few who had been given a cabin of his own on the overcrowded ship.

The incident with Norwegian conscripts being subjected to attempts at forcing them to board an overcrowded ship led to a public outcry in Mosjøen.

It is estimated that between 1627 to 1807, approximately 387 000 Africans were sent to the island against their will, in overcrowded and unsanitary ships.

The tight hypercarbon spaces down here felt like the corridors of an overcrowded ship, and smelled of damp and humanity.

It was a double-decker ship, overcrowded, and with more than its recommended load.

Bollinger estimated that the ship, if overcrowded, would be able to hold up to 6,500 prisoners.

After a long journey on the overcrowded ship (1,100 officers, men and camp followers) the regiment safely reached Aspinwall on 16 July 1852.

With only one, overcrowded ship, what kind of opposition can we mount?

Death and disease were common in overcrowded ships and prisons.