MENU FROM TITANIC SELLS FOR $49,500
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:16 am
Menu from the Titanic Sells for $49,500
LONDON (Reuters) - A dinner menu from the ill-fated Titanic fetched $49,500 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 $13,700-$20,600.
Among the other items sold Tuesday 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."
LONDON (Reuters) - A dinner menu from the ill-fated Titanic fetched $49,500 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 $13,700-$20,600.
Among the other items sold Tuesday 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."
