"Seventy-five thousand tons – dead weight – rushing through the fog at the rate of 50 feet [15 meters] a second, had hurled itself at an iceberg." This is how the New York author, Morgan Robertson, described the catastrophe unfolding in his prophetic novel penned in 1898. In his avant-la-lettre science fiction story, a giant ocean liner driven forward by three propellers, and believed unsinkable, is launched on an April night for its maiden voyage. Carrying 3,000 passengers, it measures 800 feet in length and weighs 70,000 tons. Unfortunately, it met with an iceberg, sunk, and, since there were only 24 lifeboats, more than 1,000 people perished. Name of the boat: The Titan.

Then, 14 years later, on an April night, the Titanic sinks after striking an iceberg.

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