Washington [US], November 13: The dinner menu on the Titanic more than a century ago has just been auctioned in the UK.
The first-class dinner menu on the Titanic was just sold for 84,000 pounds (2.5 billion VND) by auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in England, according to AFP reported on November 12.
The menu includes dishes served on April 11, 1912, with the flag of the British shipping company White Star Line printed on it, but the gilded lettering has faded. On the menu there are many dishes such as oysters, beef and wild duck meat.
"The menu shows signs of being partially faded in water, and the back of the menu also clearly shows further evidence of this," according to expert Andrew Aldridge of auction house Henry Aldridge & Son.
"This suggests that the menu was exposed to conditions in the icy North Atlantic on the morning of April 15, 1912. It may have left the ship with a survivor in the cold sea water or been recovered from one person is missing," he judged.
This is believed to be the only remaining menu from the first-class dinner menu on April 11, located in the photo album of the late Canadian amateur historian Len Stephenson. The identity of the buyer who successfully auctioned is unknown.
Other items up for auction included a Swiss-made pocket watch belonging to passenger Sinai Kantor, which sold for £97,000, and a striped blanket that may have been used in the campaign salvage for £96,000.
The Titanic sank in about 2 hours and 40 minutes after colliding with an iceberg on April 14, 1912 while en route from Southampton (UK) to New York (USA), killing 1,503 people, becoming a famous maritime disaster most of the 20th century.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper
