Ticket prices were extremely high
The price of tickets for the Titanic was quite high because it was a luxury passenger vessel. Today, the price of a ticket for first-class travel ranged from $775 to $112,000, or $30 to $4,350. Today, tickets for second-class travel ranged from $12 to $60 (equivalent to $300 to $1,500), while tickets for third-class travel ranged from $8 to $40 (equivalent to $200 to $1,100). Even taking into account the effects of inflation, those are some prohibitively expensive tickets.
Ticket prices were extremely high
The Disaster Was Predicted
Fourteen years before the Titanic’s first voyage, novelist Morgan Robertson published The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility, a story about the world’s largest ship meeting calamity. The imaginary ship was known as the Titan. Its dimensions were nearly identical to the Titanic’s, as were the speeds they were traveling when disaster struck. In addition, both hit an iceberg on the starboard side. They too sank in April, in the same place, with as few lifeboats as the law permitted. Though many people regarded him with clairvoyance, Robertson maintained that he just had a thorough understanding of ships and sailing.
The Disaster Was Predicted
