Titanic's menu auctioned for $137K

A number of artefacts from the ship were sold by an online New York auctioneer. Photo / Getty

The Titanic’s final lunch menu, kept by a first-class passenger saved in a lifeboat, has sold at auction for $137, 000.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon grabbed the menu, which lists corned beef, dumplings and other savoury items, before escaping on Lifeboat 1 - dubbed the 'Money Boat'.

The name was based on unfounded rumours that one of just six well-heeled escapees bribed crew members to quickly row away from the sinking liner.

A ticket also taken by Salomon from the ship's Turkish baths, logging a person's weight when seated in a special chair, fetched $17,186. It is one of just four such tickets known to exist from the era.

And a letter written by fellow lifeboat passenger Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York's Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster went for $11,700.

She wrote: "We do hope you have now quite recovered from the terrible experience. I am afraid our nerves are still bad."

The artefacts were sold by online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs.

More than 1,500 passengers and crew died when the British passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912.

It hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

- Daily Mail