It was the largest seagoing vessel of its time. Eight hundred feet long and capable of carrying 3,000 passengers, it was so large that its name evoked the Greek giants, the Titans of legend.
Hulled with steel, the British ship was regarded as "unsinkable," yet en route to New York, one April evening, it was struck by an iceberg on its starboard side around midnight and sank to the ocean floor, causing massive loss of life.
I’m talking about the Titanic, right?
Wrong!
As many readers may know, I’m talking about the Titan–a ship described in the 1898 novel Futility–or–The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson.
His novel eerily presaged the actual Titanic disaster that would occur in 1912.
After the disaster, Robertson revised the book to make it even more similar to the real-life disaster, but the above parallels were taken from the original edition.
They are only some of several, you can also
READ ABOUT THE TITANIC DIASTER.
READ THE NOVEL FUTILITY ONLINE.
or
Now just wait till I tell you scary coincidence #2!
I read about that a long time ago and everytime I tell people, they think I’m making it up. Glad to see someone else has stumbled upon this bizarre and little-known coincidence.
Thanks for posting this Jimmy. I have the book and it is amazing how many “coincidences” there are.
Being a bit of a girly-girl, I usually ignore your sci-fi & strange coincidence type postings, but this one actually sounds interesting!
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