The book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called ‘The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank.
The book is Futility or The Wreck of the Titan was written by Morgan Robertson. In addition to having the same outcome (crashing into an iceberg and sinking, the fictional “Titan” and the real-life “Titanic” had other bizarre similarities.
Although the novel was written before the Olympic-class Titanic was even designed, there are some uncanny similarities between both the fictional and real-life versions. Like the Titanic, the fictional ship sank in April in the North Atlantic, and there were not enough lifeboats for the passengers. There are also similarities between the size (800 ft (244 m) long for Titan versus 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long for the Titanic), speed (25 knots for Titan, 22.5 knots for Titanic ) and life-saving equipment.Beyond the name, the similarities between the Titanic and the fictional Titan include:Both were triple screw (propeller)Described as “unsinkable”The Titanic was the world’s largest luxury liner (882 feet (269 m), displacing 63,000 long tons), and was once described by newspapers as being “designed to be unsinkable” and “virtually unsinkable”.
The Titan was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men (800 feet, displacing 75,000 tons, up from 45,000 in the 1898 edition), and was deemed “practically unsinkable” (as quoted in Robertson’s book).
The Titan also struck an iceberg on the starboard side on an April night in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) from Newfoundland (Terranova).SinkingThe unsinkable Titanic sank, and more than half of her 2200 passengers and crew died.The indestructible Titan also sank, more than half of her 2500 passengers drowning.The Titanic went down bow first, the Titan actually capsizing before it sank.
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