Frederick Fleet

Frederick Fleet was a British merchant sailor and a survivor of the Titanic disaster. He served as a lookout on board the RMS Titanic and was the first to sight the iceberg that the ship struck on the night of 14 April 1912, ringing the warning bell and reporting "Iceberg, right ahead!" to the bridge. Fleet survived, leaving the ship in Lifeboat No. 6, and later maintained at both the American and British inquiries that he and his fellow lookouts would have seen the iceberg sooner had they been