Legends and myths regarding RMS Titanic and the real-life sinking of the RMS "Titanic". In 1912, the German "Berliner Tageblatt" newspaper published a book in serial form that ran from January 9 until April 24. This work of fiction was written by Gerhard Hauptmann, who would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year. One month before the fateful April maiden voyage of the RMS "Titanic", the story was published by S. Fischer Verlag as the novel "Atlantis". "Atlantis" is a romantic tale set aboard the fictitious ocean liner "Roland", which is coincidentally doomed to a fate very similar to that of the RMS "Titanic".
RMS Titanic in popular culture Andrews (played by Geoffrey Whitehead) is also seen as a significant character for the first time. Ian Holm's J. Bruce Ismay is presented as the villain. Warner went on to play Caledon Hockley's manservant, Spicer Lovejoy, in James Cameron's "Titanic" in 1997. The production was partially filmed aboard a real liner, the RMS "Queen Mary". 1980's "Raise the Titanic" was an expensive flop. Based on the best-selling book of the same name by thriller writer Clive Cussler, the plot involves Cussler's hero Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan) seeking to salvage an intact "Titanic" from her location on the sea bed. He