http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-kosher-cook-who-went-down-with-the-titanic/
EVERY STORY HAS A JEWISH ANGLE….EVEN 100 YEARS LATER SO DOES THE TITANIC….RSK
The ocean liner, which sank 100 years ago today, boasted a kosher meals service complete with separate utensils, rabbinical inspection, and a chef named Charles Kennell
Of the 2,225 people aboard Titanic on its maiden voyage, 1,512 perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic when the ship went down in the early hours of April 15, 1912.
Charles Kennell was among the nearly 700 crew members to die that night. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, the 30-year-old Kennell signed on to the White Star Line’s Titanic on April 4, 1912. He listed his address as 6 Park View, Southampton, the port city in southeast England from which the Titanic would embark.
Kennell had already served on the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, which took its maiden voyage in 1911. Now he came aboard the larger, more luxurious Titanic for wages of four pounds a month. Kennell was the ship’s “Hebrew cook.” The Titanic had kosher food service.
Midway through the great wave of Eastern European Jewish immigration to America — which brought two million Jews to the United States between 1881 and 1924 — major passenger lines crossing the Atlantic began instituting kosher food service for their Jewish passengers, mainly immigrants in third-class steerage.