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Titanic Cargo Stats
Titanic's Food:
1. Fresh Meat: 75,000 lbs.
2. Fresh Fish: 11,000 lbs.
3. Bacon and Ham: 7,500 lbs.
4. Fresh Eggs: 40,000
5. Ice Cream: 1,750 qts.
6. Coffee: 2,200 lbs.
7. Tea: 800 lbs.
8. Flour: 200 barrels.
9. Oranges: 36,000
10. Lemons: 16,000
11. Fresh Milk: 1,500 gallons
12. Butter: 6,000 lbs.
13. Tomatoes: 2¾ tons
14. Potatoes: 40 tons
15. Beer and Stout: 20,000 bottles
16. Wines: 1,500 bottles
17. Spirits: 850 bottles
18. Tea Cups: 3,000
19. Dinner Plates: 12,000
20. Ice Cream Plates: 5,500
21. Soufflé Dishes: 1,500
22. Wine Glasses: 2,000
23. Salt Shakers: 2,000
24. Pudding Dishes: 1,200
25. Finger Bowls: 1,000
26. Oyster Forks: 1,000
27. Nut Crackers: 300
28. Egg Spoons: 2,000
29. Grape Scissors: 1,500
30. Asparagus Tongs: 400
Cargo:
1. There were 3,364 bags of mail on board and between 700 and 800 parcels.
2. One Renault 35 hp automobile owned by passenger William Carter.
3. One Marmalade Machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
4. Oil painting by Blondel, "La Circasienne Au Bain" owned by Hokan Björnström-
Steffanson.
5. Seven parcels of parchment of the Torah owned by Hersh L. Siebald.
6. Three crates of ancient models for the Denver Museum.
7. 50 Cases of toothpaste for Park & Tilford
8. 11 bales of rubber for the National City Bank of New York
9. Eight dozen tennis balls were lost which were to go to R.F. Downey & Co.
10. A cask of china headed for Tiffany's was in the cargo hold.
11. Five Grand Pianos were on board.
12. Thirty cases of Golf clubs and tennis rackets for A.G. Spalding.
13. 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 no fewer than 1,500 precious stones,
each separately set in gold.
14. Four cases of opium
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