Even before the Titanic sailed out of Southhampton on April 14, 1921, the luxury ocean liner appeared to be jinxed.
Even before the Titanic sailed out of Southhampton on April 14, 1912, on its maiden voyage, the luxury ocean liner bound for New York with 2,240 passengers and crew on board appeared to be jinxed.Earlier, during her construction in Belfast, fire had broken out in the coal bunkers.
But according to Bancroft, a sense of gloom hung over her. Rumored aboard was a cursed Egyptian mummy’s coffin lid. When Edward Smith became the Titanic’s captain on April 1, he had already been involved in five major incidents — most recently involving the Titanic’s sister ship, The Olympia.Bettmann Archive
Newspaper editor WT Stead was cautioned by a psychic against making the trip. “I see more than a thousand people, you among them, struggling desperately in the water,” he was told. “They are screaming for help and fighting for their lives. But it does none of them any good…yourself included.”Stead still boarded the Titanic, on his way to speak at a world peace congress at Carnegie Hall at an invite from President William Howard Taft.
A first-hand account told later by Joseph Hyman revealed that there wasn’t much panic until a chief officer fired a gun into a group of third-class passengers, accidentally blowing off the chin of the man standing next to him.
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