
The Lookouts didn’t have Binoculars
Another thing that shouldn’t have happened on the Titanic is the ship’s lookouts shouldn’t have had to rely on their eyesight alone. Unfortunately, that’s all they had because the ship’s binoculars were all in one cabinet whose key was lost.
As a result, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee, the lookouts, couldn’t see far ahead. The key got lost when the second officer of the ship was replaced before dropping it in the locker where the binoculars were; it was eventually found a while after the sinking and auctioned for more than $130,000.