It is not an urban legend. I actually have the novella (purchased 6-7 years ago at A Peace of the Past, a vintage book shop, in Galena, IL).
Here's the real scoop:
The book is Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, written in 1898, by Morgan Robertson. The similarities between the fictional Titan and the real Titanic are somewhat eerie. The novella, however, is dry and a rather uninteresting read. That being said, I still think it's worth the time to read it, if just for the details of the maiden voyage of the Titan.
Morgan Robertson was not a passenger on the Titanic, nor did he die at sea.
From Wikipedia:
On March 24, 1915, Robertson was found dead in his room at the Alamac Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was 53 years of age. It is believed that he died of an overdose of paraldehyde.
Probably coincidence
or
Hoax
see below link
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xOLEv...
however interesting.
titania is name of Uranus moon and a Shakespeare character. There is no connection here though.
regards
It's just another urban myth designed to suck in the gullible. Guess it worked
Are you talking about Titanic?
There was a book written years before it happened about a ship called the Titania hitting an ice berg and sinking, on its maiden voyage. And the author was one of the people who died in the actual sinking. This is so suspicious! How the hell did he do this?
