A DECK plan and the only surviving menu from the Titanic's first-class restaurant are expected to be sold for up to £100,000 at auction next week.

The deck plan was used by Elise Lurette to find her way to the lifeboats after the passenger liner hit an iceberg in April 1912.

More than 1,500 passengers and crew drowned but Ms Lurette, a 59-year-old French-born maid, survived.

The plan was given only to first-class passengers.

Ms Lurette, who worked for the wealthy Spencer family, wrote on it "Depart le 10 Avril" and marked the paper plan with a cross to indicate the location of her cabin. Also in Ms Lurette's coat pocket when she was rescued was a lunch menu, dated April 12.

The choice in the first-class restaurant included mutton chops, roast beef, Melton Mowbray pie, lamb and mint sauce, ox tongue, tapioca pudding and greengage tart.

After managing to find a lifeboat, Ms Lurette sat alongside her employer, Marie Spencer, in lifeboat number six.

She kept the documents and left them to her family before her death the following year.

The documents, which have remained in the Lurette family, will be sold by Titanic memorabilia specialists Henry Aldridge & Son, in Devizes, Wiltshire on October 18.