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Menu from the Titanic sells for 28,800 Pounds
London, Dec 04: A dinner menu from the ill-fated Titanicfetched 28,800 Pounds (49,500 Dollars) at an auction.
London, Dec 04: A dinner menu from the ill-fated Titanic
fetched 28,800 Pounds (49,500 Dollars) at an auction.
The menu, the size of a postcard, was thought to have been given
by the ship`s second officer to his wife before he left Southampton
on the vessel`s doomed maiden voyage in 1912.
It shows the passengers ate salmon, sweetbreads, roast chicken, spring lamb, golden plover on toast and peaches just days before the supposedly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic and slipped beneath the waves.
The menu, along with other items of memorabilia from the ship, were bought by a private museum in Belfast, where the Titanic was built. It had been expected to fetch between 8,000-12,000 Pounds (13,700-20,600 Dollars).
Among the other items sold was a manuscript, written by the same second officer, describing the ship`s last hours.
``There was heard a rumbling and crashing from inside the ship, like the sound of distant thunder,`` wrote the officer, the highest-ranking crew member to survive the disaster.
``It was just on two o`clock when she assumed the absolute perpendicular and stood there for a space of about two minutes, an amazing spectacle, with her stern straight up in the air.
``Then first slowly, but with increasing speed, she quietly slipped beneath the water.``
Bureau Report
It shows the passengers ate salmon, sweetbreads, roast chicken, spring lamb, golden plover on toast and peaches just days before the supposedly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg in the Atlantic and slipped beneath the waves.
The menu, along with other items of memorabilia from the ship, were bought by a private museum in Belfast, where the Titanic was built. It had been expected to fetch between 8,000-12,000 Pounds (13,700-20,600 Dollars).
Among the other items sold was a manuscript, written by the same second officer, describing the ship`s last hours.
``There was heard a rumbling and crashing from inside the ship, like the sound of distant thunder,`` wrote the officer, the highest-ranking crew member to survive the disaster.
``It was just on two o`clock when she assumed the absolute perpendicular and stood there for a space of about two minutes, an amazing spectacle, with her stern straight up in the air.
``Then first slowly, but with increasing speed, she quietly slipped beneath the water.``
Bureau Report