Morgan Robertson

Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan is Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella about the unsinkable ship Titan, which goes down after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Disgraced former naval lieutenant John Rowland is working as a deckhand on the Titan when it strikes an iceberg and capsizes. Saving the younger daughter of a former lover by jumping onto the iceberg with her, Rowland and his charge are eventually rescued and return to their homes. Written...

The Grain Ship (1914) is a collection of short stories by Morgan Roberston. Published a year before the author's death, The Grain Ship compiles works of short fiction originally published in Harper's Monthly, New Story Magazine, and The Sunday Magazine. The ten stories of The Grain Ship showcase Robertson's skill for yarn-spinning while benefitting from his experience as a merchant sailor. Dining alone at an upscale restaurant, an old sailor overhears...

She was the largest, fastest, and latest thing in seagoing destroyers, and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots' speed, she had made thirty-eight on her trial trip, and later, under careful nursing by her engineers, she had increased this to forty knots an hour-five knots faster than any craft afloat-and, with a clean bottom, this speed could be depended upon at any time it was needed. She carried four twenty-one-inch torpedo...

The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical tales, plus a bonus poem, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call. Included are: THE SHIP THAT SAW A GHOST, by Frank Norris GHOST LANTERNS, by Alan B. LeMay THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP, by Ralph Milne Farley THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE, by W. Clark Russell THE DERELICT, by H. M. Tomlinson THE TEMPLE, by H. P. Lovecraft A...