Frederick Fleet (October, 1887 – January 10, 1965) was a crewman and survivor of the RMS Titanic who had served as a lookout on the ship that sank after striking an iceberg. It was Fleet who first sighted the iceberg that caused the ship's sinking, ringing the bridge to proclaim "Iceberg, right ahead!" October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Crewman is a generic term for a crew member of an aircraft, naval vessel, military unit, or team of professionals attempting to accomplish a goal. ... The New York Herald reports the disaster. ... An iceberg (berg is the German word for mountain) is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. ...

Fleet was one of the thoe Titanic crewmembers assigned to man the lifeboats after the ship started to go down. As such, he survived the ship's sinking and served in the merchant service through World War I and again in World War II after having been unemployed in in the 1930s. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...

After Fleet's wife died in the early 1960s, he began to suffer from depression and committed suicide by hanging in 1965. His tombstone bears a picture of the sinking Titanic. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ... Hanging is a form of execution, or a method for suicide. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

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• Biography of Frederick Fleet