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First published in 1898, a novel about the sinking of a supposedly unsinkable ocean liner. This fiction contains a series of parallels to the real-life sinking of the Titanic in 1912, but is ostensibly an account of how a disgraced naval officer is thwarted in his plans to expose his greedy employers, by fate and by foul means.

'She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession and trade known to civilization... unsinkable, indestructible she carried as few boats as would satisfy the laws' So wrote Morgan Robertson in 1898 in this novel of extraordinary intensity and uncanny premonition.
The Wreck of the Titan tells the story of John Rowland, a disgraced ex-naval officer, now working as a deckhand on the mighty passenger liner Titan. When she crashes into a smaller ship in her path, the other vessel is cut in two. Rowland, horrified by what he has seen, refuses to be bribed into silence and swears that he will report the captain as soon as they dock in London. But they never arrive. The Titan smashes into an iceberg. Only two lifeboats make it to safety, leaving Rowland and his ex-lover's tiny daughter trapped on the ice with no food, no shelter and a dangerously hungry polar bear.