'Bon Voyage' story.


This story is about a couple who miraculously avoided the fate of the RMS Lusitania only to be aboard the Hindenburg when it crashes. This ironic story was said to be false, a fictional story created by one of their writers. Actually, a similar story did in fact take place involving the RMS Lusitania and the RMS Titanic. An American millionaire named Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was to sail from Southampton to New York via Titanic but had withheld. His life was spared, only to be taken 3 years later by the Atlantic ocean while aboard the Lusitania. Despite the many warnings of warfare at the time the ship still attracted travellers who succumbed to the frigid waters. Google or Wiki Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and/or RMS Lusitania to find out more about its sinking.

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Crazy. So they concocted a story they thought was entirely fictional, not realizing there actually was a true one that could've inspired said story? Plus, they used the other one regarding the Titanic (a seemingly prophetic fictional book had been written about a doomed ship nearly identical to Titanic, that also sank and killed everyone on board.)

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