<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> British </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Sailor, Crewman </Td> </Tr> <P> Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887--10 January 1965) was a British sailor, crewman and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912 . As a lookout aboard the Titanic when it struck the iceberg, along with Reginald Lee, 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 with binoculars, "We could have seen it a bit sooner ." When asked how much sooner, he responded, "Well, enough to get out of the way ." In later life, Fleet suffered severe depression, and died by suicide . </P> <P> Fleet was born in Liverpool on 15 October 1887 . He never knew his father, and his mother abandoned him and fled with a boyfriend to Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States never to be seen or 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 . </P>

Who was in the crows nest when the titanic struck the iceberg