Sneaky's Daily Did You Know....? - What a Coincidence


In 1898, retired Merchant Navy Officer Morgan Robertson wrote a novel, "The Wreck of the Titan", which uncannily predicted the Titanic didaster 14 years later.
Apart from the similarity in the names of the two ships, Robertson's Titan was also a huge, supposedly unsinkable British liner making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York with 3000 passengers on board. It too struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank with many people losing their lives because of the shortage of lifeboats.



In April 1935, a ship named the Titanian, carrying coal from Newcastle to Canada, almost suffered the same fate as the Titanic when encountering an iceberg in the same area of the North Atlantic. Luckily, Crewman William Reeves had a premonition of impending disaster and yelled "Danger Ahead!" to the navigator shortly before the iceberg became visible in the darkness. Reeves was born on 15 April 1912 - The day the Titanic sank.

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