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The tune came from a musical toy pig belonging to one of the passengers who played it repeatedly to comfort children in the lifeboat and block out the sounds of the dying in the water around them.
The device had been broken for several decades but was fixed last week by experts at the National Maritime Museum. However, they were unable to identify the song, which was played on the Telegraph website earlier this week.
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The pig belonged to Edith Rosenbaum, 32, who survived the sinking.
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She was in her cabin when the ship hit the iceberg and saw it move past, through her porthole. She went on deck before returning to collect the pig, as the passengers were mustered near the lifeboats.
She initially refused to get into a boat, apparently climbing back out of one of them – like many passengers, she was apparently certain the liner would not sink.
A sailor then grabbed the pig – made of wood and papier maché, with an outer layer of actual pig skin – from under her arm and threw it into the lifeboat, telling her: “You don’t want to be saved, well I’ll save your baby”.
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After the sinking, one apparently mistaken passenger complained that another had had a real pig on board the lifeboat. Rosenbaum was said to be initially embarrassed by the disclosure she had taken a toy pig with her.
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