The ultimately salvaged menu details the first dinner on board after the Titanic set sail from Queenstown, Belfast and reveals the opulence that the ship's first-class passengers would have experienced.
A rare first-class menu from the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £70,000 when it goes on sale on Saturday in an auction of memorabilia associated with the doomed ocean liner.Video above: Footage of first dives to Titanic wreckageHeavily water-stained, with some of the lettering partly erased, it is likely that this menu ended up in the North Atlantic for a time when the Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, British auction house Henry Aldridge and Son Ltd.
Other items in the auction offer a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the 2,223 passengers and crew on board the Titanic, of whom just 706 survived.A tartan blanket used by one of those survivors to stay warm in a lifeboat was hailed by the auction house as 'one of the rarest three dimensional objects we have seen' and is expected to sell for up to £100,000 .
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