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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Oysters and ice-cream: menu for dinner on Titanic sold for £83,000

Close-up of a waterstained card with printing on it, including items such as creme d'asperges, salmon hollandaise, whitebait, tournedos of beef
The first-class dinner menu from the Titanic, on 11 April 1912, which is to be auctioned. Photograph: Henry Aldridge & Son/PA

It was not quite the last supper for the first-class passengers on board RMS Titanic, but very nearly. A unique surviving ship’s menu from 11 April 1912, going under the hammer this weekend, has revealed the treats that were served on the doomed liner just three days before it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic.

Expected to sell for up to £70,000, the bill of fare poses some interesting questions: among them, who grabbed a menu while making for the lifeboats, and what is Victoria pudding?

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