Morgan Robertson The Titan

Morgan Robertson The Titan. Sold at Auction The Wreck of the Titan, or, Futility First Edition by Robertson, 1898 The largest vessel ever to float at 800 feet long, displacing 45,000 tons, and declared unsinkable by all who had seen her was gliding through the water with roughly 2,500 peacefully sleeping passengers. Wikimedia Commons Morgan Robertson, author of The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility

Wikimedia Commons Morgan Robertson, author of The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility It features a fictional British ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg.The Titan and its sinking are famous for their similarities to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 years later.

Robertson (Author of Futility or the Wreck of the Titan)

by Morgan Robertson (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 321 ratings Released as "Futility" in 1898 and revised as "The Wreck of the Titan" in 1912 Morgan Robertson didn't base his book on the Titanic disaster - he wrote it fourteen years before that event! The Wreck of the Titan is a good enough thriller with a quick-moving plot taking in intrigue, although its ending is so sudden that it felt like the story had hit a brick wall.

The Wreck of the Titan, Chap IV Robertson) YouTube. by Morgan Robertson (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 321 ratings Includes the short story "Beyond the Spectrum", which described a future war between the United States and the Empire of Japan.

The Wreck of the Titan eBook by Robertson Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster Canada. The largest vessel ever to float at 800 feet long, displacing 45,000 tons, and declared unsinkable by all who had seen her was gliding through the water with roughly 2,500 peacefully sleeping passengers. The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility had been swiftly reprinted after the real-life event Robertson appeared to have prophesied (with a few changes to the size and weight of the ship in his novel).