The tragedy of Titanic, a ship that was said to be unsinkable is counted among the biggest tragedies of the 20th century and James Cameroon’s ‘Titanic’ just immortalised the sufferings of the voyagers who were on board on Titanic on April 15, 1912.

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While we know almost everything about the tragedy, how many of us know that India too had witnessed similar tragedy twenty years before the Titanic saga? Yes, this is the story of steamship Vijli or SS Vaitarna which sank off Bombay Coast on 8th November, 1888.