Titanic Menu up for Auction in the United Kingdom

The menu for the first class passengers of the sunken Titanic will be put up for auction at Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd, along with other memorabilia related to the liner. The value of the lots is expected to reach £60 thousand.

This is reported on the auction house's official website. 

"Only a handful of Titanic menus are known to exist today - but those are for the night of the tragedy when passengers had them in their jacket or coat pockets.

This menu is the only one known to exist for April 11 - four days before the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1,522 lives," the statement said. 

The menu from the first-class restaurant most likely ended up in the North Atlantic after the ship sank on 15 April 1912. 

The surviving artefact contains a detailed description of the dishes served for the first dinner on the ship after the Titanic's passengers set sail from Queenstown, Belfast.

So, on 11 April 1912, the first class restaurant offered its visitors oysters, beef tenderloin with horseradish cream and parsnip puree, as well as desserts - apricot Bourdaloue tart (a type of pie) and Victoria pudding.

Earlier, a rare sample of the menu belonged to the historian Len Stevenson, who came from Nova Scotia, where all the bodies of the ship's victims were brought after the disaster. 

Although Stevenson died back in 2017, the menu was only recently discovered when his daughter Mary Anita decided to put her father's old things in order. 

After the discovery, Anita decided to take the menu to a local museum, where she was advised to contact the auction house. 

Among other lots from the legendary Titanic, the auction features a Scottish blanket used by one of the surviving passengers to keep warm in the lifeboat. According to the auction house, this is one of the rarest three-dimensional objects that have been preserved for more than a century after the tragedy. 

The auction will also feature a pocket watch that recorded the moment the second-class passenger, Sinai Kantor, fell into the water and subsequently died.

The Titanic disaster is still considered one of the most dramatic in human history. 

In 2020, the wreckage of the legendary Titanic ship was granted international protection under an agreement between the US and UK governments that regulates visits to the wreck and the removal of artefacts to preserve the site of the legendary ship's sinking. 

Earlier, The Gaze reported that scientists had created a digital scan of the Titanic from 70,000 photos.