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The Wreck of the Titan

by Morgan Robertson

Reading level
Easy
Price
Free

About the book

"The Wreck of the Titan" by Morgan Robertson is a novella first published in 1898. It tells the story of the Titan, a massive ocean liner considered unsinkable, and John Rowland, a disgraced former naval officer working as a deckhand. When the ship strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks with insufficient lifeboats, only thirteen passengers survive. The novella became famous for its eerie similarities to the real RMS Titanic disaster that occurred fourteen years after publication.

  • Ships
  • Shipwrecks
  • Sea stories, American

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #24880. The Wreck of the Titan on Wikipedia.

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