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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 9 years ago

What ship am I describing?

This ship was described as "unsinkable" and at over 800 feet was the largest passenger liner built. Because she was considered so safe she only carried less than half the number of lifeboats to accommodate her passenger capacity. She set sail in April on her maiden voyage between Southampton and New York City. Her captain wishing to make a name for himself wanted to make the voyage in record time and so was pushing the ship at full speed of over 22 knots despite concerns of icebergs. When 400 miles away from Newfoundland she struck an iceberg on her starboard side opening several compartments and began to sink bow-first. Only less than 1/2 of her passengers survived.

Sounds like I am describing the actual events of RMS Titanic, right?

In actuality I am describing the death of the RMS Titan as described in Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel titled "Futility". The details which I included were in his ORIGINAL novel and do correspond to the details of the Titanic. After the sinking of Titanic he re-released the novel with a few details like tonnage closer to that of the Titanic that was not in the original novel. And certainly the actual numbers of passengers, lifeboats and speed varied slightly. But none of that has to do with the actual prediction of the event 14 years prior to its occurrence.

Who says prophesy does not exist?

Update:

Thomas: Sorry dude... but the book was already published 14 years prior. There actually could have been someone on the Titanic was actually reading it as the ship sailed! How ironic would that have been?!

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  • 9 years ago
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    Wow thats kinda scary!!

  • Thomas
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    9 years ago

    Next time something interesting happens, I write it down as a novel and tell everybody that I wrote my novel ten years ago and that I am a prophet.

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