Frederick Fleet (15 October 1887 – 10 January 1965) was a British sailor, crewman and a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Fleet testified at the subsequent inquiries into the disaster that, if he and Lee had been issued binoculars: "We could have seen it (the iceberg) a bit sooner."

The lookouts, six in total, worked two-hour shifts due to extreme cold in the crow's nest.

At 22:00 (10.00pm) that night, Fleet and his fellow lookout Reginald Lee replaced George Symons and Archie Jewell at the nest.

This is sometimes attributed to the last-minute change in the hierarchy of the ship when officer David Blair was removed from the maiden voyage crew (due to the knock-on effect of Henry Tingle Wilde being appointed chief officer) without mentioning where the binoculars were located.

[13] At 23:39 (11:39 pm), Fleet first spotted the iceberg and rang the nest's bell three times to warn the bridge of something ahead.

Moody passed Fleet's warning to First Officer William McMaster Murdoch, who was in charge of the bridge.

[15] At 00:00 (12 midnight), Fleet and Lee were relieved by Alfred Frank Evans and George Hogg.

Second officer Lightoller put quartermaster Robert Hichens in charge of the lifeboat and ordered Fleet aboard as well.

[17] As no able seaman was near, Canadian Colonel Arthur Godfrey Peuchen volunteered to join the boat saying he had experience in sailing.

Arguments and problems arose on boat 6 as quartermaster Hichens kept insulting and mistreating the rowers, including Margaret Brown and Helen Churchill Candee.

In the United States, he was questioned by Senator William Alden Smith, to whom he repeatedly said that had they been equipped with binoculars, the disaster would not have happened.

[24] Shortly after Christmas, on 28 December 1964, Fleet's wife died, and her brother evicted him from the house.