Everything seemed to be going swimmingly until the Olympic crashed into the HMS Hawke, a British warship.
In 1910, Violet Jessop got a job aboard the RMS Olympic. And also two more ship disasters… Come out to the Coast, We’ll Get Together, Have a Few LaughsĪt the ripe age of 23, Violet Jessop decided to follow in her mother’s sea-legged footsteps and become a stewardess with the famed White Star Line. Other plans included being involved in the most famous ship disaster of all time. The icy hand of death came for Jessop at an early age, inflicting her with a case of tuberculosis that was supposed to kill her, but fate had other plans. Violet was one of six surviving children born to the family tree of her Irish immigrant parents, out of a total of nine. This is the story of Violet Jessop, an Irish woman who survived not one, not two, but THREE of the most catastrophic ship disasters of the 20th century.Īfter suffering through a childhood plagued with a serious illness, the ever-lucky Violet went on to survive the crash and near-sinking of RMS Olympic in 1911, the sinking of the Britannic in 1916… oh, and I almost forgot to mention, the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.ĭeath Waits For No Man, But It Waited For Violet Jessopīorn in 1887 in Argentina, Violet Constance Jessop came out of the womb beating the odds.
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