10 Unusual Facts You Didn't Know About The Titanic

3. An 1898 Novel Draws Eerie Parallels With The Titanic Disaster

Morgan Robertson Futility
Kessinger Publishing

14 years before the Titanic set sail on her doomed maiden voyage, author Morgan Robertson released a novel named Futility that bares a lot of eerie similarities to the events of the Titanic€™'s sinking.

The book tells the fictional story of an €˜unsinkable€™ passenger liner that does the impossible after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, but the similarities don'€™t stop there. Both the ship in the book and the Titanic hit the iceberg on their starboard side, and both were traveling at between 22 and 25 knots.

Furthermore, the Titanic and the fictional ship sank on a night in April, and both sank roughly 400 miles from America. Neither ship had enough lifeboats on board, and their sinkings both resulted in the deaths of over half of the people on board. The story is made all the spookier by the name of the ship in Robertson'€™s novel: The Titan.

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