Titanic Menu Reveals Last Lunch

[Lionel]

A rare menu dated April 14, 1912, reveals what first-class passengers of the Titanic ate just hours before the ship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic and sank. The menu, along with another rare menu and artifacts belonging to Charles Herbert Lightoller, the highest-ranking member of the Titanic crew to survive, were offered for auction by Sotheby's in London last month. The lunch menu was withdrawn before the end of the sale, but its value was estimated at around $20,000. few weeks before the sale, the Derby Museum and Art Gallery announced that the only known artifact from the first-class restaurant, remains of a wooden pillar, had been found in its collections. A member of the Titanic's rescue ship retrieved the pillar 90 years ago. The pillar was one of many that surrounded the restaurant's tables set with bright blue china, silverware, and lead crystal.

The menu for the restaurant originally belonged to Gretchen Fiske Longley. Lightoller helped the 16-year-old Longley into Lifeboat 10 at 1:20 a.m. Before the rescue, she had enjoyed a four-course luncheon that consisted of such foods as a chicken leek soup, grilled mutton chops, numerous seafood dishes, custard pudding, and a cheese plate worthy of today's fine restaurants.

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[sabretooth]

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