Titanic Superstitions?

Question

I have been fasinated with the Titanic for years, and recently I discovered that 14 years before the actual Titanic was made, a book was published about a fictional boat. The simularities between the real boat and the fictional boat are uncanny. I am writing a reasearch paper about it, and was wondering if anyone knew more specifically about it, and if they knew all the things that were simular.

Any help would be appreciated! Remember, 10 points for the best answer :)

Answer 1

the names were same and a lot of the size features were the same do u remember the name of the book that would help

Answer 2

Probably just a coincidence.  Jules Verne wrote about submarines long before there were submarines too.  There is little in the real world that hasn't been thought of before it happened.  There are many books about space travel that mirror actual events even though they were written long before such travel was possible.  

It is a bit eerie, but not unbelievable that the book would mirror the actual events so closely.l

Answer 3

Well it could be a coincidence, or they could've used the fictional boat as a model, or one of the disiners could've wrote the book.

Answer 4

Because that was the design of the ship before they actually built it.

Answer 5

I remember reading about that too...the book was called The Wreck of the Titan. Some other stories about the Titanic were that the builder never stated that "not even God could sink her"...a newspaper reporter made it up. The sinking might have been avoided if the crewman who had the key to the crow's nest binoculars locker had not left the ship with the key. The watch crew that night did not have the key and did not have access to the binoculars which may have given them more time to avoid the iceberg.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=ti...

Answer 6

Here you go!  It is quite eerie http://www.gettysburgghosts.net/titan.ht...

Answer 7

Or maybe not so odd:

In 1898, a book was published in America called The Wreck of the Titan. Its author Morgan Robertson told the story of The Titan, a huge, 46,000-ton liner, deemed unsinkable by its builders. On its maiden voyage from England to New York in April, it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. With too few lifeboats many passengers drowned.

Fourteen years later, in the early hours of April 15,1912, the "unsinkable" 45,000 ton Titanic hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York and sank. Half the passengers were drowned - there were too few lifeboats. An in a final spooky twist, the Titanic said to have sunk with a copy of The Wreck of the Titan in its library.

Uncanny? Perhaps - until you start to look at the parallels more closely. Firstly,if you're going to write an exciting book about an ocean liner, it's unlikely to focus on the 56th trip of the world's 223rd largest ship. It's more likely to feature the maiden voyage of the biggest liner ever.

The size of the ship effects the choice of name - the SS Midget doesn't really work. So, look up synonyms for "huge" and you'll find "gigantic","colossal" and ..."titanic". The real surprise is that the author of The Wreck of the Titan didn't get the name exactly right.

What's the most dramatic thing that can happen to a ship? Sinking, of course. And what could sink such a huge liner ? Icebergs are the obvious choice: long before The Wreck of the Titan, icebergs in the Atlantic were a notorious hazard. They sank the SS Pacific in 1856, and Cunard's Persia hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage in the same year. And how about adding a bit of drama by having too few lifeboats to go round?

"Spooky" parallels between The Wreck of the Titan and the Titanic highlight a key to understanding coincidences: many of the parallels - such as the similar huge size and : names of the ships - are related to each other. Probability theory shows that this makes them far more likely to appear together than if they were totally unconnected.

Answer 8

http://www.webtracts.com/PDFFiles/Titani...