Destiny's Voyage

History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic’s ancestor of the White Star Line: the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less, the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a journey about the first of the White Star Line’s luxury, steel hull steamships, which still carried her sails. Why did the Atlantic divert her voyage to New York to sail to Halifax, leading her to crash on Nova Scotia’s granite shore? This story tells of the destiny of not only the ship herself but of her passengers who made fatal decisions to be on board. Like the RMS Titanic, the SS Atlantic carried eleven multi-millionaires, leaders of industry. Learn why Mrs. Rowden insisted on leaving the ship in Queenstown, Ireland, where 160 Irish citizens boarded for the new America dream, and the carpet baggers revolt. The loss of all women and children except young John Hindley. The heroism of the Anglican Priest, Reverend Ancient. This journey will make you reflect upon your own path to destiny. It is not just about a shipwreck but the web creating the destiny of a mighty ocean liner and over one thousand souls in her care. The SS Atlantic, the ancestor of the RMS Titanic.