In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, an American writer named Morgan Robertson wrote a book called "Futility: The Wreck of the Titan"; but it is most commonly referred to as just "Futility", or "The Wreck of the Titan". In his story, the Titan, a passenger ship almost identical to the Titanic, and labeled "unsinkable", with many rich and famous passengers on board. The Titan hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks. Because there were not enough lifeboats, many lives were lost. The story of the Titan predicted exactly what would happen to the Titanic 14 years later.

For more, go to this page, which compares the Titanic and the Titan, and also has to first 2 chapters of the book Futility