The meal, which consisted of oysters, beef tornadoes, spring lamb, and mallard duck, was served on April 11, 1912, the evening after the liner's tragic first trip from Cobh, County Cork, to New York.

The Titanic sank the next day, April 15, after colliding with an iceberg in the evening, killing over 1,500 people on board as well as the crew.

The menu, measuring 16 cm by 11 cm, features an embossed crimson White Star Line burgee. Originally, it featured gilt lettering that displayed the initials of OSNC (Ocean Steamship Navigation Company) next to the letters RMS Titanic.

"The latter exhibits indications of water immersion having been partially erased, and the reverse of the menu also plainly displays additional evidence of this," auctioneer Andrew Aldridge stated.

This would suggest that on April 15, either the menu fled the ship with a survivor who was exposed to the chilly sea waves or it was retrieved on the person of one of the deceased, having been exposed to the frigid North Atlantic waters that morning.

"There are no other extant examples of a First-Class 11 April dinner menu that we have located, despite speaking with the world's top Titanic memorabilia collectors and consulting with multiple museums that house Titanic collections."

"The menu is a remarkable survivor from the most famous Ocean liner of all time."

Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor, millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaires Cosmo and Duff Gordon, and socialite Molly Brown were among the first-class passengers aboard the Titanic.

Following the death of the late Len Stephenson, his daughter and son-in-law found the menu in a 1960s photo album.

Mr. Stephenson gathered and saved a great deal of historical material on his hometown, Dominion, Nova Scotia.

On November 11, the menu will be put up for auction at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.