Right, this is an incredible clever headline. I visualized a ship, screaming at the top of their lungs, but sinking just before getting within earshot

"tried to warn" seems a bit misleading to me. It seems that it successfully warned the Titanic, as did several other ships, but the Titanic didn't do anything with the warnings. It maintained full speed per standard practice, believing that ice formed little danger to large vessels (per Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic).

The phrase is often used when something bad happens after someone urged caution and was ignored.

Recipient “didn’t want to hear it”: https://news.yahoo.com/us-intelligence-tried-warn-ukraine-10...

Unfortunately, it’s also used when the message never makes it to the recipient: https://www.nj.com/union/2022/05/nj-cop-tried-to-warn-gang-m...

Same for the Britannic, Titanic's sister ship that was converted into a hospital ships and then torpedoed (or mined?) and sank faster than her sister.

Violet Jessop [1] survived both!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

And the collision of the RMS Olympic (the first of the three in that family) with the HMS Hawke. As did the coal stoker Arthur Priest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Priest

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam