In 1898 a struggling author named Morgan Robertson concocted a novel called "Futility" about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had been built.

No more than fourteen years later a British shipping company named the White Star Line built a steamer remarkably like the one in Robertson's novel.

• The new liner was 66,000 tons displacement; Robertson's was 70,000 tons.
• The real ship was 882ft and 9in long; the fictional one was 800ft.
• Both vessels were triple screw and could make 24 - 25 knots.
• Both could carry about 3,000 people and both had enough lifeboats for only a fraction of this number. But, then, this didn't seem to matter because they were both labeled "unsinkable".
• The fictional boat was wrecked one cold April night on an iceberg.  On April 10, 1912 the real ship left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.  On her way over she too struck an iceberg and went down.
• Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic.

Now we know exactly where the conspirators got the inspiration for their Titanic insurance hoax.

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