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 Maritime Memorial Act Department of State proposed an agreement with the United Kingdom, Canada and France (as well as other interested countries) to enact the policies from the 1986 Act on an international scale. Known as the "Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel R.M.S. "Titanic"", Canada and France did not ratify it, though the signature of only two countries is sufficient for the agreement to enter force – the United Kingdom ratified the agreement on November 6, 2003, and it was subsequently signed by the United States on June 18, 2004. RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act The R.M.S. "Titanic" Maritime Memorial Act of 1986