Who Was Frederick Fleet Married to From The Titanic?

Answer 1

He was one of the chief look-outs, and was on watch when he and his colleague Archie Jewell first saw the iceberg looming up out of the darkness. He immediately telephoned through to the bridge with the cry "Iceberg, dead ahead!" but by then it was too late for the huge liner to turn enough to avoid a collision.

Both Fleet and Jewell survived the disaster- Fleet was cleared of any culpability at the Official Enquiry, although he was scapegoated by some of the surviving crew members who blamed him for not having seen the 'berg approaching sooner (in fact, he could not possibly have done).

He never returned to sea, and spent the rest of his life as a newspaper seller on the streets of Southampton. Although he became a popular local character and was always kind and friendly, he became depressed following the death of his wife and committed suicide in 1965 by hanging himself from the washing line in his back garden- he was 78 years old. Buried in an unmarked grave, he was finally given a headstone in 1993 by Titanic Society Inc.

Jewell went on to serve in the Merchant Navy in WW1 and died when his ship the Donegal was torpedoed in the English Channel on 17th April 1917.

Answer 2

Rose Bukater