Food loaded onboard Titanic included 1,500 gallons of fresh milk and 600 tons of condensed milk. Titanic also carried 36,000 oranges and 16,000 lemons.
Titanic sailed with 36,000 apples, 16,000 lemons and 13,000 grapefruits on board! Many other local firms relied on supplying the liners with goods and services - FG Bealing and Son Nursery at Burgess Road, Highfield grew flowers and plants which adorned Titanic's luxurious interior.
8. Peaches in Chatreuse Jelly - in a mould ornamentally lined with pieces of peaches and filled with peach marmalade (jelly). 9. Chocolate & Vanilla Eclairs - unlike eclairs today these were filled with custard, flavored with vanilla pods, instead of fresh cream.
What item from the Titanic was auctioned off for $100,000?
A Pocket Watch, Frozen in Time During the Titanic Sinking, Could Fetch $100,000 at Auction. The watch is among several rare pieces recovered from the ill-fated ship.
The ice cream room was located on G deck, port side, abaft of WTB M and the no. 4 funnel. One wall would have been right up against the hull. When the stern section imploded/when the hydro dynamic forces peeled back the shell plating, that room would have been decimated.
This extremely rare artefact is manufactured from linen and cork and was recovered from the wreck site by the Mackay-Bennett, the first of four ships chartered by the White Star Line to search for bodies after the sinking. No records exist of the original wearer of this lifejacket.
Or that – despite what the Internet believes – it partly imploded as it sank? Or that a couple got married on the deck of the Titanic in 2001? One such strange fact is that – despite exploration of the submerged wreck since its rediscovery in September 1985 – no human remains have ever been found on board.
Astor was the richest passenger aboard the RMS Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of roughly $87 million (equivalent to $2.83 billion in 2024) when he died.
The ship was loaded with 34,000 kg of meat, 4,990 kg of fresh fish, 40 tons of potatoes, 40,000 eggs, 7,000 heads of salad, 4,536 kg of sugar, 250 barrels of flour, 36,000 apples, 1,500 gallons of milk and 15,000 bottles of beer.
Why so few? In all only 337 bodies of the over 1500 Titanic victims were found, only one in five. Some bodies sank with Titanic. Winds and currents quickly scattered the remainder.
How many bottles of champagne were on the Titanic?
If we take a look at the ship's manifest, we see that the Titanic contained 1,500 bottles of Wine, 15,000 Champagne Glasses, 20,000 Bottles of Beer & Stout, 850 Bottles of Spirits, and the cargo manifest showed a further 63 Cases of Champagne, 17 Cases of Cognac, 70 Cases of Wine and 191 Cases of Spirits.
Over a thousand miles from its birthplace, and about a fortnight after its collision with Titanic, the last piece of the iceberg disappeared into the Atlantic ocean. A scattering of soil on the sea bed from the iceberg's rocky sediments are all that remain, some way from the wreck of Titanic.
It consisted of roast beef, rice soup, fresh bread, boiled potatoes, and biscuits, as well as gravy, corn, fruit, and plum pudding (likely the British kind of pudding, versus the American one).
Coca cola was not served, nor was it on board the Titanic. For the 100 year anniversary, someone came up with Titanic coke rememberance bottles, “Jack" and “Rose" bottles.
The 706 survivors and the families of the 1,517 dead therefore might be entitled to only a total of $91,805: $85,212 for passengers, $2,073 for cargo, and a $4,520 assessment for the only materials salvaged from the Titanic—the recovered lifeboats.
Yes, Section 113 prohibits persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction from engaging in any research, exploration, salvage, or other activity that would physically alter or disturb the wreck or wreck site of Titanic, unless authorized by the Secretary of Commerce, as delegated to NOAA (see Question 1). See 84 Fed. Reg.
What was the largest item recovered from the Titanic?
The Big Piece. The Big Piece is a large section of the Titanic's starboard hull extracted from its wreck. Recovered in 1998, it is the largest piece of the wreck to be recovered and weighs 15 short tons (14,000 kg).
Like any other ship, Titanic had a substantial population of rats. One was seen running across the Third Class Dining Room on the evening of the sinking, to the shock and amazement of the diners. Some of the women who saw it burst into tears, while men tried unsuccessfully to capture the rat.
Alan York Yes, the Titanic menu included lobster. It wasn't for first-class passengers, but was part of the dishes served in the galley. Lobsters were kept alive in tanks before being cooked to ensure freshness, according to ship records.
There were no horses aboard the Titanic, let alone put on lifeboats. While many animals were on the Titanic (officially - like dogs, cats, or even several birds - or “uninvited” - like many rats and mice), none of them were horses.
