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Menu provided to first class passengers on the Titanic
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Yu Han-ju = ‘Oysters, salmon with hollandaise sauce, Victoria pudding…’ ‘
The Guardian, a British daily, reported on the 11th (local time) that a menu listing the dinner food eaten by first-class passengers three days before the Titanic sank in 1912 was sold at auction for 83,000 pounds (about 130 million won).
At an auction hosted by British auction house ‘Henry Aldridge & Son’ on this day, a menu provided to first-class passengers on the Titanic on the evening of April 11, 1912 was sold for 83,000 pounds.
The dinner was held on the day the Titanic left Queenstown, Ireland, and headed to New York.
The Titanic sank three days later, on April 14, 1912, in the middle of the North Atlantic.
The menu lists a variety of dishes, including oysters, salmon, beef, baby pigeons, duck, chicken, and puree made with rice and parsnip.
Desserts at the time included Victoria pudding and ice cream. Victoria Pudding is a dish made by mixing ingredients such as flour, brandy, apples, cherries, and spices.
At the top center of the menu is the logo of White Star Line, the shipping company that built the Titanic. There are also traces of water stains remaining here and there on the paper.
The Guardian reported that this menu was discovered in a 1960s photo album owned by Len Stevenson, a historian from Nova Scotia, Canada.
“We’ve talked to museums and collectors of Titanic items all over the world, and we can’t find anything like this anywhere,” said Andrew Aldridge, the auction house’s manager.
However, some are criticizing the idea of privately keeping items found on the Titanic, where 1,500 passengers lost their lives.
Harry Bennett, an associate professor of maritime history at the University of Plymouth in England, said owning objects believed to have been recovered from victims’ bodies was a “moral issue,” and pointed out that “they would be better off in a museum than in a private collection.”
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