How does the story about the ship before the Titanic go? I think the ship's name was the Titan. Where would I find more scary coincidence stories like this?
2006-07-11 08:17:04 · 4 answers · asked by Jae 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I first heard about this story when I was child watching an old "One Step Beyond" episode called "The Night of April 14th."
An excerpt from this site http://www.jamesmdeem.com/titanic1.htm:
Titan set sail in April at full speed, trying to break the record for the shortest transatlantic crossing. On a foggy, moonlit night, Titan brushed against a large iceberg, which pulled the ship out of the water before it slammed onto her starboard side. Most of the lifeboats were smashed in the collision. As Robertson imagined it, only thirteen of three thousand passengers survived the sinking.
What amazed many people is that Robertson's description of Titan was so similar to the Titanic. In fact, there are a number of striking comparisons between these two supposedly unsinkable ships.
Besides their almost identical names, both collided with an iceberg in the month of April.
They also were about the same length and could travel about the same speed.
Both had the same number of propellers and almost the same number of lifeboats.
When you consider the fact that Robertson wrote his book fourteen years before the Titanic was built, you can understand why some people believe that Robertson saw the future. Others, however, think that Robertson based the Titan on his knowledge about shipbuilding at the time; he simply made logical assumptions about the size, speed, and equipment of such a mammoth ship. He also was quite familiar with episodes in which ships had collided with icebergs. Did he see the future, or did he simply use his powers of logic and reasoning? >
The text of the story "Futility" novella is here:
http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/effluvia/twott-t.htm
2006-07-11 09:08:42 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the story about the Titan is very similar to Titanic.
im not exactly sure but something happened and the ship sank just like Titanic
2006-07-11 08:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by aly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.docpop.org/2007/04/jim-stensland-gods-prophet/.
2016-11-20 08:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by jim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
2006-07-11 08:19:59 · answer #4 · answered by hayase m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋