Bob Richards

How would Robertson have known in 1898 the great ships of the future would have been an average of 800 ft in length?  Probably because they had already started to build such ships like the 704ft  RMS Oceanic which was to be built 1 year later in 1899.  Undoubted Robertson read journals describing the future build of passenger ships as well indicating the sizes would be even larger. What about having the ship hit a berg as the disaster scenario? What else could you have? You might have the ship hitting another  as the Titanic nearly did do with the 570ft ship  'SS City Of New York' when it left the port in Southampton [see picture directly above] but no I'd say the more interesting and believable thing, would be using a berg.  Hitting icebergs were the number one thing feared at the time and being cautious concerning such was top priority for any ship's captain. Robertson imagined h...

It's April, the actual month in which the Titanic sank  in the North Atlantic.  I've always thought  I'd like at some point, touch on the Titanic theme and what better time to do so then the date in which it occurred.  No, I won't bore you with the same ole details concerning the event---I'm sure you've heard them all . There are I think a few discussions not directly about Titanic itself but what I'd call,  OTHER THINGS .  I trust you'll find them of interest. The first, is something which has mystified or that many have considered quite unusual, something occurring     14 years before the great ship floundered.    In 1898 a novel was written by Morgan Robertson entitled   ‘ Futility and the Wreck of the Titan’ which seemed to describe in an uncanny fashion through fiction the almost identical event as the real life Titanic. Robertson wrote about a great passenge...