The Titanic
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:10 pm
Fourteen years before the Titanic sailed on an April day in 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, a novel was published called Futility about an unsinkable and glamourous Atlantic liner, the largest in the world. Like the Titanic, the fictional vessel was triple-screw and could make 24-25 knots; at 800 feet it was a little shorter than the Titanic, but at 70,000 tons its displacement was 4000 tons greater. Like the Titanic's, its passenger list was the crème de la crème, and of course there weren't enough lifeboats. On a cold April night, the fictional "unsinkable" vessel strikes an iceberg and glides to the bottom of the Atlantic.
The name of this liner, in the story by Morgan Robertson - The Titan.
(From Facts and Trivia Isaac Asimov 1979).
The name of this liner, in the story by Morgan Robertson - The Titan.
(From Facts and Trivia Isaac Asimov 1979).