Provisions

Southampton traders did well out of Titanic, although they would
not have supplied all of  what was needed to stock the ship:


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

Once on board, the provisions had to be sorted, checked and stored.
For the passengers to eat the food with, there were 57,600 items of crockery, 29,000 pieces of
glasswear and 44,000 pieces of cutlery.

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