The Morgan Robertson book, published exactly 14 years before the Titanic sank in 1912, really surprises. Here's the details.
"yes, yes, I found it, I finally found a big story, it had to be a big ship that crashed; as big as the Titans from the time of Olympus. of course, his name should have been titan..."
I don't think you said that when you decided to write this book, but some of you guessed who I was going to talk about; Morgan Robertson, of course. let's talk about himself; his full name is Morgan Andrew Robertson, and he is a writer of short stories and novels who was born and died in America.
In fact, if we had put a nickname for him, the name nostradamus would not have been wasted. one day in 1898, when he was writing short stories and novels in his own way, he came up with an interesting story and came up with a novel called futility or the wreck of the titan. this story tells of a major shipwreck. probably because his father was a ship captain on the Great Lakes in America.
Story
Let's briefly summarize the subject of the story. in the book, The titan, a ship, was the largest ship to swim and the greatest work of humans. no expense was spared to make the ship luxurious, even the cabin of the stewards was described as equal to that of a first-class hotel. the construction of Titan used state-of-the-art steel systems, including 19 waterproof compartments. Even when 19 compartments were flooded, the ship was still floating, and no known naval event could wear this ship out. the titan, a steamship, was considered practically unsinkable. as the titan was considered unsinkable, it carried only the minimum number of lifeboats required by law, and these boats could carry 24-500 people. but this was not enough for 2,000 passengers. Morgan Robertson's Titan hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank. 2987 people died in the disaster.
The story sounds familiar, doesn't it? yes, morgan robertson wrote this story 14 years before the sinking of a ship called the Titanic. He was even accused of using the condition when the 1912 Titanic sank.
The incredible similarities between the real story
In the story, the name of the ship was titan-in the real case, the name of the ship was Titanic.
- Both ships were sailing from England-in the story the route was liverpool/New York - in the real event the route was southampton-New York.
- Both were on the North Atlantic line, and the disaster occurred here on both.
- The scandalous causes of both are excessive speed-hitting the iceberg - a sufficient number of lifeboats.
- April 14 April 1912, 11.40 am, the collision for the Titanic, occurred on both ships.
- Both ships were described as unsinkable.
- The Titan was 800 feet long-while the Titanic was 882.5 feet long.
- Both ships were made of state-of-the-art steel alloy.
- The Titanic had 19 waterproof compartments-while the Titanic had 16 waterproof compartments.
- The Titan weighed 45,000 tons-while the Titanic weighed 52,310 tons.
- Both ships had 3 propellers.
- The Titanic had 24 lifeboats-the Titanic had 16 normal lifeboats, plus 4 folding lifeboats.
- Number of survivors on Titan 13-710 people survived on the Titanic.