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Fifteen-year-old Samuel Scott died while building the Titanic.
As the ship sails to her doom, his ghost moves restlessly alongside the passengers and crew: Frederick Fleet: the young look-out who spotted the iceberg and who survived in a life-boat with (the unsinkable) Molly Brown;
Howard Hartley Wallace: the heroic band-leader who played ragtime music as the freezing waters lapped at his feet;
Harold Bride: the junior radio operator whose messages echoed on, long after the ship had disappeared to its icy grave…
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