Vintage photo c1912 of Titanic survivor Frederick Fleet - the lookout who spotted the iceberg which sank the ship in April 1912.
Vintage photo circa 1912 of Frederick Fleet - a lookout on RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg on April 14 1912 and subsequently sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Fleet (1887 - 1965) was the first person to sight the iceberg and rang the bridge to exclaim: "Iceberg, right ahead!" He survived the disaster, which claimed more than 1500 lives, as he was one of the crewmembers assigned to man the lifeboats and later testified that he would have seen the iceberg earlier if he had been issued with binoculars. He continued to work at sea for much of his life but became depressed and committed suicide in January 1965, two weeks after the death of his wife. Fleet is sometimes referred to as the last victim of the Titanic disaster in that people who knew him said he suffered from terrible feelings of guilt all his life because he had lived while so many others died. Photo by Harris & Ewing.
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