Sailing Day

Around midnight, on the Fourth of April 1912, the R.M.S Titanic steamed in to Southampton docks. In the six days that followed before departures all the Fresh linen, food & drink were brought on board.

Item	Quantity	Item	Quantity
Fresh meat	75,000 lbs	Flour	250 barrels
Fresh fish	11,000 lbs	Cereals	10,000 lbs
Salt and dried fish	4,000 lbs	Apples	36,000
Bacon & Ham	75,000 lbs	Oranges	36,000
Poultry and game	25,000 lbs	Lemons	16,000
Fresh eggs	40,000	Grapes	1,000 lbs
Sausages	2,500 lbs	Grapefruit	13,000
Potatoes	40 Tons	Jams & Marmalade	1,120 lbs
Onions	3,500 lbs	Fresh milk	1,500 gals
Tomatoes	3,500 lbs	Fresh cream	1,200 qts
Fresh asparagus	800 bundles	Condensed milk	600 gals
Fresh green peas	2,500 lbs	Fresh butter	6,000 lbs
Lettuce	7,000 heads	Ales and stout	15,000 bottles
Sweetbreads	1,000	Wines	1,000 bottles
Ice cream	1,750 qts	Spirits	850 bottles
Coffee	2,200 lbs	Minerals	1,200 bottles
Tea	800 lbs	Cigars	8,000
Rice, dried beans etc	10,000 lbs
Sugar	10,000 lbs

Tons	Tonnes
lbs	pounds
bundles	bundles
heads	heads of lettuce
qts	quarts
barrels	barrels
gals	gallons
Bottles	bottles

Of course, with such vast amounts of food and drink aboard, you would need something to consume them off of/out of/with. There were some 57,600 items of crockery, 29,000 pieces of glassware ad 44,00 pieces of cutlery. There were also 196,100 items of linen to be loaded, counted, listed in the inventory and stored. Also finishing touches to the interior were made. Because of the coal strike a few weeks before, Titanic was one of the first ships to leave Southampton. Most of the ships in the dock were emptied of coal to feed the Titanic's 29 huge boilers. The cargo put on board was magnificent. Amongst other things, movie cameras, cars and a rare jewelled copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.