Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic
At the time the "Titanic" sank, the 1 May 1912 issue of "The Popular Magazine", an American pulp magazine, was on the news stands. It contained the short story "The White Ghost of Disaster," which described the collision of an ocean liner with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, the sinking of the vessel, and the fate of the passengers. The story, by Mayn Clew Garnett (the pseudonym of sea-story author T. Jenkins Hains), created a minor sensation. In 1898, fourteen years prior to the "Titanic" disaster,
Morgan Robertson wrote a book called "Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan". This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the "Titan", which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the "Titan" hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. There are some similarities between the fictional sinking of the "Titan" and the real-life sinking of the RMS "Titanic".
MY Titanic
"Titanic" is now owned by White Star Line Ltd. On 31 March 2010, "Titanic" developed a leak while on a voyage from Grenada to Puerto Rico where she was to undergo a refit. A skeleton crew of three people were on board. Water in the engine room reached a depth exceeding . Crew member Mark Corbett used the yacht's satellite phone to call his best friend Alex Evans' mobile phone. Evans, a lifeboatman, received the call while in a DIY shop in Aberystwyth, Wales. He took down details including the position of the ship, which was southeast of St Croix, (at ), writing the details on a till receipt. Evans then went to the local RNLI lifeboat station and telephoned the Coastguard at Milford Haven and asked to be put through to the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) at Falmouth from where the rescue was co-ordinated at a distance of over .