Pedro Soares
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Everybody knows the Titan, the famous ship from Morgan Robertson`s novel, everybody knows the "horror" tale by W. T. Stead... And everybody knows the tragedy that happened on 14-15 April 1912. Just a coincidence? Nobody can tell. These two stories weren`t a warning to captain Smith, but the memory of that tragedy in 1912 saved another ship 23 years later.
A young lookout named William Reeves was on his nightshift in the crow`s nest of a cargo ship which was sailing from Tyneside to Canada in 1935. He was breathing the cold air of April, the month of the disasters with icebergs, the real or the unreal, that haunted the spirit of the youngman. His shift should be finished by about 20 minutes to midnight, the hour that, has he knew, had been fateful for the R.M.S. Titanic.
These thoughts slowly tooked shape and grew as terrible signs inside Reeves` mind, in his lonely shift in the crow`s nest. His tired eyes were looking in the horizon, seeking for any sign of danger in the darkness. He did not sound the alarm, fearing what his compagnions would think of him.-And he was afraid of not doing it.
Suddenly, he remembered of the exact date of Titanic`s sinking, 15 April 1912. The coincidence was terrible.- that date was his birthday! The growing sensation of fatalism dominated Reeves until it became a dreadful certainty. He desperatly sounded the alarm, and the quartermaster made full speed astern. The ship stopped in a whirl of spume. A huge iceberg standed menacingly in front of the ship. There were even bigger bergs surrounding the small ship, and it took nine days to the ice-breakers from Newfoundland to free the the ship from the ice.
The name of the ship that was so close of sharing the fate of the Titanic? The Titanian.
P.S.-I can`t assure the veracity of this storie...
A young lookout named William Reeves was on his nightshift in the crow`s nest of a cargo ship which was sailing from Tyneside to Canada in 1935. He was breathing the cold air of April, the month of the disasters with icebergs, the real or the unreal, that haunted the spirit of the youngman. His shift should be finished by about 20 minutes to midnight, the hour that, has he knew, had been fateful for the R.M.S. Titanic.
These thoughts slowly tooked shape and grew as terrible signs inside Reeves` mind, in his lonely shift in the crow`s nest. His tired eyes were looking in the horizon, seeking for any sign of danger in the darkness. He did not sound the alarm, fearing what his compagnions would think of him.-And he was afraid of not doing it.
Suddenly, he remembered of the exact date of Titanic`s sinking, 15 April 1912. The coincidence was terrible.- that date was his birthday! The growing sensation of fatalism dominated Reeves until it became a dreadful certainty. He desperatly sounded the alarm, and the quartermaster made full speed astern. The ship stopped in a whirl of spume. A huge iceberg standed menacingly in front of the ship. There were even bigger bergs surrounding the small ship, and it took nine days to the ice-breakers from Newfoundland to free the the ship from the ice.
The name of the ship that was so close of sharing the fate of the Titanic? The Titanian.
P.S.-I can`t assure the veracity of this storie...
