Since the sinking of the Titanic there have been many stories about the disaster, and perhaps one could say, too many. Very few of those stories have been written with the credibility that this neverending saga deserves. This book is different, whereas it has been written by someone with authority, that has not only lived with this story all his life, but has experienced those same conditions. The author, having served on some of the great North Atlantic liners as a Lookout Man in later years, knows firsthand how Fred Fleet, Titanic's Lookout Man, would have felt in those extreme weather conditions.

The Titanic story had been told to him on numerous occasions by his mother who, at the age of 15, had survived that disaster and was old enough to remember vividly the voyage, and the tragic events that followed.

After the Titanic disaster, Edith Haisman (nee Brown), visited Australia in 1914 and many years later, in 1966, settled in Brisbane with many of her grown-up family. This story therefore is Brisbane's if not Australia's, very own link with the Titanic disaster and should be great interest to Australians from all walks of life.

Edith Haisman died in 1997 aged 100 years, and the following year, Southampton City Concil posthumously honoured Mrs Haisman by naming a street after her, calling it "Edith Haisman Close".