Titanic’s last menu leaves a bitter taste in the mouth

The Titanic’s last ever lunch menu — saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was reportedly bribed to row away instead of rescue more people — has been sold at a US auction.

The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs offered the menu, which sold for $88,000, (€79,000) and two other previously unknown artefacts from Lifeboat 1.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon was among a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat, dubbed the Money Boat or Millionaire’s Boat by the press because of unfounded rumours one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ocean liner.