FYI: In 1898 author Morgan Robertson wrote a book called "Futility" which contained short stories; one of these stories was The Wreck of the Titan which centered around a gigantic ocean liner that was described as unsinkable. The fictional ship struck an Iceberg in April and sunk in the North Atlantic There was a great loss of life due to too few lifeboats for the number of passengers. Both ships were 400 miles away from newfoundland when they struck the iceberg The Titan carried 2500 passengers and the Titanic had 2,200 The Titan had 24 lifeboats, the Titanic had 20 Size: The Titan was 800 feet the Titanic was 882 feet
That's pretty strange, especially the Titanic sinking 14 years later. Do you think the author had a premonition? I'm intrigued at shit like that.
Premonition, well today interestingly enough is Friday February 2, 2018 Groundhog Day, my opinion of the authors ability to predict future events lies somewhere between Punxsutawney Phil ( and his ability to prognosticate the weather) and Miss Cleo of the psychic friends network, so yeah I don't give it much credence although it is an interesting coincidence.
Last year a researcher identified another factor that probably contributed to the amount of damage caused by the iceberg. He came across a newly discovered photo album that showed a large discolored area of the hull right where the iceberg struck the ship. The Titanic carried over 6,000 tons of coal. The owners of the Titanic suppressed the fact that a three story tall coal bunker caught fire and had been burning up to three weeks before the ship sunk. They believe the discolored hull is from the heat of the fire. It’s also right where the iceberg tore into the hull. They now believe the weeks long fire generated so much heat that it weakened the hull contributing to the large hole torn into the ship.
Someone didn’t read the entire thread That’s been my argument from the start. Even though the Titanic received a number of ice warnings they were traveling at near top speed of 22.5 knots, so they wouldn’t run out of coal before reaching New York. The coal bunker fire was exhausting their fuel at a much greater rate than expected.
Well, the iceberg was white and the Titanic was black. It’s clearly another case of whitey exercising his white privilege to keep another black down. Yeah I skimmed the second page. Oops.
12 men were assigned the task of putting out the fire which tells you just how serious it was. Everything that could go wrong concerning the titanic, went wrong. The Steel was low grade The Coal Bunker Fire If the ship hadn’t been at near top speed If the ice warning had been heeded If the lookout had been issued a pair of binoculars he could have spotted the iceberg in time; If someone aboard the SS Californian had simply decided to wake up the wireless operator (instead of the Captain) after witnessing the distress flares (the Captain was indifferent) they could have rescued most of the passengers since they were only 19.5 miles away. If they had a sufficient number of life rafts, they could have saved many more lives