Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
Titanic Cargo Stats
Titanic’s Food
- Fresh Meat: 75,000 lbs.
- Fresh Fish: 11,000 lbs.
- Bacon and Ham: 7,500 lbs.
- Fresh Eggs: 40,000
- Ice Cream: 1,750 qts.
- Coffee: 2,200 lbs.
- Tea: 800 lbs.
- Flour: 200 barrels.
- Oranges: 36,000
- Lemons: 16,000
- Fresh Milk: 1,500 gallons
- Butter: 6,000 lbs.
- Tomatoes: 2¾ tons
- Potatoes: 40 tons
- Beer and Stout: 20,000 bottles Wines: 1,500 bottles
- Spirits: 850 bottles
- Champagne: 63 cases
Titanic’s Serving Utensils
- Tea Cups: 3,000
- Dinner Plates: 12,000
- Ice Cream Plates: 5,500
- Soufflé Dishes: 1,500
- Wine Glasses: 2,000
- Salt Shakers: 2,000
- Pudding Dishes: 1,200
- Finger Bowls: 1,000
- Oyster Forks: 1,000
- Nut Crackers: 300
- Egg Spoons: 2,000
- Grape Scissors: 1,500
- Asparagus Tongs: 400
Cargo - The Usual and Unusual
- There were 3,364 bags of mail on board and between 700 and 800 parcels.
- One Renault 35 hp automobile owned by passenger William Carter.
- One Marmalade Machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
- One Case of toothpaste for Park & Tilford.
- Three Cases of Soap Perfume.
- Eight Cases of Orchids.
- 11 bales of rubber for the National City Bank of New York.
- A cask of china headed for Tiffany's was in the cargo hold.
- 34 cases of athletic goods for A.G. Spalding.
- A jewelled copy of The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, with illustrations by Eliku Vedder sold for £405 at auction in March of 1912 to an American bidder. The binding took two years to execute, and the decoration embodied 1,050 precious stones, each separately set in gold.
- Four cases of opium.
