Titanic by Nicola Pierce

Author:Nicola Pierce [Nicola Pierce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788490382
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2018-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

EVEN IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, REVEREND HARPER DID HIS BEST TO CONVERT HIS FELLOW PASSENGERS. HE SWAM AROUND ASKING PEOPLE TO OPEN THEIR HEARTS TO JESUS.

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Morgan Robertson – Genius or Psychic?

After Titanic sank, some people accused Morgan Robertson of being clairvoyant, while others wondered if he had conversed with God himself. Born in 1861, in Oswego, New York, to a sea captain father, the young Morgan developed an early passion for life at sea. However, after serving in the Merchant Marine between 1877 and 1886, he left it behind forevermore. From the vastness of the open water he turned his attention to minute objects, spending ten years as a diamond setter until his failing eyesight propelled him to find another way to make a living. A reporter gave him a book, a sea story written by Rudyard Kipling that, from an experienced seaman’s point of view, was full of inaccuracies and this spurred Morgan to write his own. In 1898, he released his novella Futility, about the ‘practically unsinkable’ Titan, a massive new British liner that hits an iceberg at top speed and sinks in the North Atlantic on an April night with a huge loss of life because there were not enough lifeboats. You can imagine the curiosity roused when his novella was reissued in 1912 and renamed, The Wreck of the Titan. One wonders if there was any criticism at the publisher’s blatant attempt to cash in within months of the tragedy.

The impoverished writer Morgan Robertson, a man seemingly way ahead of his time.

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