15 October 1887| Liverpool, England, UK |Died||10 January 1965
Southampton, England, UK Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887 – 10
January 1965) was a crewman and survivor of the sinking of the
RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912.
Employed as a lookout aboard Titanic, it was Fleet who first
sighted the iceberg, ringing the bridge to proclaim, "Iceberg,
right ahead!" Fleet testified at the inquiries that if he had
been issued binoculars, he would have seen the iceberg sooner,
because it was a blue iceberg in calm seas on a moonless night.
Fleet was born in Portsmouth on 15 October 1887. He never knew
his father, and his mother abandoned him and ran away with a
boyfriend to Springfield, Massachusetts never to be heard from
again. Frederick was raised by a succession of foster families
and distant relatives. In 1903 he went to sea as a deck boy,
working his way up to able seaman. Before joining Titanic he had
sailed for over four years as a lookout in Oceanic. His address
was given as Norman Road,