Titanic’s final menu taken by survivor sells for £58k

THE Titanic’s final lunch menu, kept by a first-class passenger saved in a lifeboat, has sold at auction for £58,166.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon grabbed the menu, listing corned beef and dumplings, before escaping on Lifeboat 1 – dubbed the Money Boat. The name was based on unfounded rumours that one of only six well-heeled escapees bribed crew to quickly row away from the stricken liner.

A ticket also taken by Salomon from the ship’s Turkish baths, logging a person’s weight when seated in a special chair, fetched £7,270. And a letter by fellow lifeboat passenger Mabel Francatelli to him on New York’s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster went for £4,950.

She wrote: ‘We do hope you have now quite recovered from the terrible experience. I am afraid our nerves are still bad.’

The artefacts were sold by online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs. The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, killing 1,500.