Note: Probably all four of these titles (variously fashioned) have been used for the story and/or chapbooks that contain it: • Futility • Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan • The Wreck of the Titan • The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility The latter, at least, has been used for 4-story collection first published in 1914 (see). According to Wikipedia, "After the sinking of Titanic [April 1912] the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage." Wikipedia cites History on the Net; both sources are linked above. Concerning the UK edition in John Clute's collection (London: Arthur F Bird, 1912), SFE3 reports "text apparently identical to the above", the original.

Synopsis: The story is famous as foretelling RMS Titanic and its sinking, en route across the North Atlantic. The parallel story is the first half of the novel, whose second half is a human and legal drama featuring the protagonist-survivor. See the articles linked above. See also The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?, edited by Martin Gardner (Prometheus Books, 1986; revised 1998). --SFE3