A Night To Remember by Walter Lord - The Sinking of the Titanic
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High in the crow's nest of the New White Star Line at Titanic. Look out Frederick Fleet peered into a dazzling night. It was calm, clear and bitterly cold. There was no moon but the cloudless sky blazed with stars. The Atlantic was like Polish plate glass. People later said they'd never seen it so smooth. This was the fifth night of the Titanic's maiden voyage to New York and it was already clear. She was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world. Even the passengers, dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Basta had along his Dale kitty Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family had his prize Pekinese. So Robert W Daniel, the Philadelphia banker was bringing back a champion French bulldog just purchased in Britain Clarence Moore of Washington also had been dog shopping but the 50 pairs of English fox sounds he bought for the Louden hunt weren't making the trip. That was all another world to Frederick fleet. He was one of the six lookouts carried by the Titanic and the lookouts didn't worry about passenger problems. They were the eyes of the ship and on this particular night fleet had been warned to watch, especially for icebergs so far, so good on duty at 10:00, a few words about the ice problem would look out, Reginald Lee who shared the same watch a few more words about the cold but mostly just silence as the two men stared into the darkness. Now, the watch was almost over and still there is nothing unusual. Just the night, the stars, the biting gold, the wind that whistled through the rigging as the Titanic raced across the calm black sea at 22 a half knots. It was almost 11:40 PM on Sunday, 14 April 1912.