The lunch menu on the Titanic went under the hammer at an auction in New York

The last lunch menu on the famous Titanic liner, which sank in 1912, went under the hammer for $88. The first class passenger managed to save the list of dishes.

The auction house Lion Heart Autographs put up for sale a menu and two previously unknown items that were in the lifeboat number one. The lunch menu was considered the jewel of the auction, dedicated to the 30 anniversary of the discovery of the wreckage of the ship. It has chicken in Maryland, dumplings, grilled lamb ribs, smoked sardines, corned beef and German beer.

Passenger Abraham Lincoln Salomon, carrying a list of meals, boarded a rescue ship whose crew were rumored to have been bribed to row away from the disaster rather than save more people. The press nicknamed the boat the "money boat" or "millionaire's boat" due to unconfirmed rumors of bribery.

The menu was signed on the back with a pencil in another passenger of the first class - Isaac Gerald Froental, who managed to escape in another boat. From this we can conclude that on a tragic day the men had breakfast together.

Salomon also took a ticket to the luxurious Turkish baths from the Titanic. It contains the names of three of the five people in lifeboat number one. One such ticket was sold for eleven thousand dollars.

A letter written by another first-class passenger, Mabel Frankatelli, using stationery at the New York Plaza Hotel and sent to Salomon six months after the disaster, went under the hammer for 7,5 thousand dollars. The woman was in a lifeboat with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her husband. According to rumors, they made the bribe.

However, the British commission for the collapse of the liner acknowledged that Duff-Gordons did not deter the crew from trying to save other people. At the same time, it was noted that several people could have been saved if the boat had returned.

Francatelli wrote to Salomon: “I hope you have already recovered from those terrible events.” The woman complained about the London commission's unfair suspicion of bribing the crew.