Items that fell forward during the last moments of the Titanic, listed in Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, 1955:

• 29 boilers
• 800 cases of shelled walnuts
• 15,000 bottles of ale and stout
• 30 cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets
• 30,000 fresh eggs
• 5 grand pianos
• a 50-phone switchboard
• 8 dozen tennis balls
• a jeweled copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• 2 reciprocating engines
• a 1912 Renault Type CB Coupe de Ville

Also tons of coal, a cask of china intended for Tiffany’s, dozens of potted palms, innumerable shuffleboard sticks, “tumbling trellises, ivy pots and wicker chairs in the Café Parisien,” and the ship’s enormous anchor chains, each link of which weighed 175 pounds. “Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher. The strains of ‘Autumn’ were buried in a jumble of falling musicians and instruments. The lights went out, flashed on again, went out for good.”