Built between 1909 and 1912, the Titanic was the second of a trio of great ocean liners (the first was the Olympic and the third was the Britannic).
The Titanic was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean from April 14 to 15, 1912, while making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the reason for the shipwreck was a collision with an iceberg.
The investigations and analyses concerning the sunken luxury liner after the discovery of the tanks where the food was stored, led to the discovery of olive oil, and everything points to the fact that most probably, with a severity of almost 100 percent, the origin was Spain.
The Titanic was full of all kinds of luxuries, including the menus of the restaurants that served the best food of French origin, Italian cuisine was previously discarded.
Since no Italian products were purchased, it is only reasonable that the olive oil came from Spain, the largest producer of olive oil even at that time. This justification expands its reasons considering that the liner was British, and the United Kingdom was the first buyer of Spanish olive oils, i.e., more than 80 percent of the olive oil consumed in the United Kingdom at that time was of Spanish origin.
Possibly, due to the selection of the best products in the world that were included in The Titanic, the olive oil in the deposits was Carbonell, Ybarra or Minerva.
In line with the data published by Ramón Ramón i Múñoz, associate professor of economic history at the University of Barcelona, and according to his article La exportación española de aceites de oliva antes de la Guerra Civil: companies, markets and commercial strategies, in it he establishes that at that time Great Britain was the third country to which Spain exported olive oil, as leader, supposing this origin 80 percent of the total demand of the mentioned country, and equally, more than 40 percent of the exported product came, in order, from the companies Carbonell y Cia, Hijos de Ybarra, and Minerva, therefore, the olive oil that traveled on board the Titanic was most likely Spanish, and produced by Carbonell, Ybarra or Minerva.