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'Futility: The Wreck Of The Titan'
In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, an American writer named
Morgan Robertson wrote a book called 'Futility: The Wreck Of The Titan', but
it is most commonly refered to as 'Futility', or 'The Wreck Of The Titan'. In
his story, the Titan, a passenger ship almost identical to the Titanic, and
labelled 'unsinkable', with many rich and famous passengers on board. The Titan
hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks. Because there were not enough
lifeboats, many lives were lost. The story of the Titan predicted exactly what
would happen to the Titanic 14 years later.
Ten years after the book was written 2 men, Bruce Ismay (President of the White
Star Line) and Lord Pirrie (Chairman of Harland & Wolff Shipbuilders) began
making plans to build a real Titanic ship.
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