[danielsan]

I posted some less clear images in another thread recently, that appeared to get some likes. I thought I'd share the following better quality images of the menus, and restaurants aboard the Titanic.

The first menu and restaurant is for First Class passengers.

The second two menus and restaurant show what fayre was available to those in Second Class.

The final images show the much plainer Third Class. Note that at the bottom of the 3rd class menu, diners are advised where to take any complaints. They must have been expecting them!

[Ninjavandal]

I'd sure like to have that hanging in my living room or office.

[NurseBettie]

3rd class sounds good to me.

[ECfromDC]

2nd class looked best imo.

[K53]

I'll skip the sailing

[Weiland]

This is incredibly saddening. How ironic: the unsinkable ship sank.

[LittleMouse]

I used to have this old encyclopedia type book on the occult and in it I found an article about a story written before the Titanic was built that bore incredible similarities to the actual event. The ship in the story(The Wreck of the Titan/Futility)was called The Titan. They were the same kind of boats, same capacity, both were 'unsinkable', both had too few lifeboats, both hit an iceberg(same spot on the boat) in April in the north Atlantic....
I found it a little strange that more people weren't aware of this coincidence...I only found the story by chance. I don't even remember where I got the book from.
soo...about those menus, in 3rd class, dinner means lunch? It actually sounds really good, but then for 'supper' they get 'gruel' and 2 other items? I love how its worded for 1st class to make it sound more refined....

[danielsan]

Originally Posted by LittleMouse ↗

I used to have this old encyclopedia type book on the occult and in it I found an article about a story written before the Titanic was built that bore incredible similarities to the actual event. The ship in the story(The Wreck of the Titan/Futility)was called The Titan. They were the same kind of boats, same capacity, both were 'unsinkable', both had too few lifeboats, both hit an iceberg(same spot on the boat) in April in the north Atlantic....
I found it a little strange that more people weren't aware of this coincidence...I only found the story by chance. I don't even remember where I got the book from.
soo...about those menus, in 3rd class, dinner means lunch? It actually sounds really good, but then for 'supper' they get 'gruel' and 2 other items? I love how its worded for 1st class to make it sound more refined....

The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility

The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility (originally called Futility) is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson.
The story features the fictional ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg.

The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic, which sank fourteen years later.

Following the sinking of the Titanic, the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage.

The first half of Futility introduces the hero John Rowland. Rowland is a disgraced former US Navy officer.

Now an alcoholic fallen to the lowest levels of society, he has been dismissed from the Navy and works as a deckhand on the Titan. One April night the ship hits an iceberg, sinking somewhat before the halfway point of the novel.

The second half follows Rowland. He saves the young daughter of a former lover by jumping onto the iceberg with her.

The pair find a lifeboat washed up on the iceberg, and are eventually rescued by a passing ship. But the girl is recovered by her mother and Rowland is arrested for her kidnapping.

A sympathetic magistrate discharges him and rebukes the mother for being unsympathetic to her daughter's savior. Rowland disappears from the world.

In a brief final chapter covering several years, Rowland works his way up from homeless and anonymous fisherman to a desk job and finally, two years after passing his civil service exam, to "a lucrative position under the Government, and as he seated himself at the desk in his office, could have been heard to remark: 'Now John Rowland, your future is your own.

You have merely suffered in the past from a mistaken estimate of the importance of women and whisky.' THE END" (1898 edition at Google Books)

A later edition includes a coda. Rowland receives a letter from the mother, who congratulates him and pleads for him to visit her, and the girl who begs for him.

Although the novel was written before the RMS Titanic was even conceptualized, there are some uncanny similarities between both the fictional and real-life versions.

Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic, and there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers.

There are also similarities between the size (800 ft (244 m) long for Titan versus 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long for the Titanic, speed (25 knots for Titan, 22.5 knots for Titanic[4]) and life-saving equipment. Similarities between the Titanic and the fictional Titan include:

Similar names of the ships

Both were described as the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men

The Titan was 800 feet long, displacing 75,000 tons (up from 45,000 in the 1898 edition).

The Titanic was 882 feet long, displacing 46,000 tons.
Described as "unsinkable"

Had triple screw (propeller)


The Titan carried "as few as the law allowed", 24 lifeboats, which could carry "less than half" of her total complement of 3,000.
The Titanic carried only 16 lifeboats (plus 4 Engelhardt folding lifeboats).

The Titan, moving at 25 knots, struck an iceberg on the starboard side on a night of April, in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) from Newfoundland (Terranova).

The Titanic, moving at 22½ knots,[6] struck an iceberg on the starboard side on the night of April 14, 1912, in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) from Newfoundland (Terranova).

The Titan sank, and the majority of her 2,500 passengers and crew died; only 13 survived.

The Titanic sank, and 1,523 of her 2,200 passengers and crew died; 705 survived.

The Titan and Titanic both sank on a night in the month of April.

After the Titanic's sinking, some people credited Robertson with clairvoyance. Robertson denied this, claiming the similarities were explained by his extensive knowledge of shipbuilding and maritime trends.

Source -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wr...:_Or,_Futility

[GRiZ]

Quite possibly the most boring menu ever.

[GRiZ]

BTW, wtf is a coconut sandwich