Today I've read a short story[at one time called a novella]titled Futility which at the outset describes a ship called the Titan.In the story this ship is the largest most opulent ocean liner built-800ft long,75,000 tons displacement and a speed of 25 knots.Said to be virtually unsinkable with automatic water tight doors and able to stay afloat with her first 9 compartments flooded.Carrying the bare minimum number of lifeboats required by law and nowhere near enough for her 2,000 passengers plus crew.This work of fiction goes on to describe how on her third Atlantic crossing-from New York to Southampton-while travelling at high speed in fog in the month of April she hits an iceberg and sinks with all but a handful of survivors to tell the tale.Sound vaguely familiar?Some of the story[notably the tonnage of the ship]was subsequently changed after April 1912.The amazing thing is that Morgan Robertson wrote this story in 1898!! 14yrs before the Titanic disaster,pure coincidence or some kind of eerie prophecy?