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Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887 – 10 January 1965) was a British sailor, crewman and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. [1] Fleet, along with fellow lookout Reginald Lee, was on duty when the ship struck the iceberg; Fleet first sighted the iceberg, ringing the bridge to proclaim: "Iceberg, right ahead!"
Reginald Robinson Lee (19 May 1870 – 6 August 1913) was a British sailor who served as a lookout aboard the Titanic in April 1912. He was on duty with Frederick Fleet in the crow's nest when the ship collided with an iceberg at 23:40 on 14 April 1912; both Lee and Fleet survived the sinking.
On 6 April 1912 Jewell was transferred to the Titanic as one of six lookouts along with 24-year-old George Symons. Jewell was scheduled to be in the crow's nest between 20:00 and 22:00 and then from 2:00 to 4:00, during the night of 15 April 1912. At around 22:00 Jewell and Symons were replaced by their colleagues Reginald Lee and Frederick ...
Thirty years ago today on September 1, 1985, the 73-year-old Titanic wreckage was finally discovered. The tragedy of the RMS Titanic rocked the world on April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship ...
The Titanic, a behemoth in its time, was an ocean liner that spanned more than 880 feet long and weighed 46,329 tons when it departed on its maiden voyage April 10, 1912. The liner was hailed as a ...
A year on from the Titan submersible disaster, a US billionaire is launching a new $20m submarine project to prove that the Titanic wreck site can be explored safely.. Larry Connor, 74, a real ...
The Big Piece is a large section of the Titanic ' s starboard hull extracted from its wreck. Recovered in 1998, it is the largest piece of the wreck to be recovered [2] and weighs 15 short tons (14,000 kg). It is currently located at the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Luxor Las Vegas. [3]
The Titanic’s wreckage two and a half miles below the Atlantic Ocean rested unseen by human contact for nearly 75 years, until Bob Ballard’s expedition discovered the infamous ocean liner’s ...