Violet Jessop - wikipedia Violet Jessop Violet Constance Jessop Violet Jessop in her Voluntary Aid Detachment uniform while assigned to HMHS Britannic ( 1887 - 10 - 02 ) 2 October 1887 Bahía Blanca, Argentina 5 May 1971 ( 1971 - 05 - 05 ) ( aged 83 ) Great Ashfield, Suffolk Nationality Irish and Argentine Occupation Ocean liner stewardess, nurse Parent ( s ) William and Katherine ( Kelly ) Jessop Violet Constance Jessop `` Miss Unsinkable '' ( 2 October 1887 -- 5 May 1971 ) was an Irish Argentine ocean liner stewardess and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both the RMS Titanic and her sister ship, the HMHS Britannic, in 1912 and 1916, respectively. In addition, she had been on board the RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship in 1911. Contents 1 Early life 2 Olympic 3 Titanic 4 Britannic 5 Later life 6 In popular culture 7 References 8 External links Early life Born on 2 October 1887, near Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Violet Constance Jessop was the eldest daughter of Irish immigrants, William and Katherine Jessop. She was the first of nine children, six of whom survived. Jessop spent much of her childhood caring for her younger siblings. She became very ill as a child with what is presumed to have been tuberculosis, which she survived despite doctors ' predictions that her illness would be fatal. When Jessop was 16 years old, her father died due to complications from surgery and her family moved to England, where she attended a convent school and cared for her youngest sister while her mother was at sea working as a stewardess. When her mother became ill, Jessop left school and, following in her mother 's footsteps, applied to be a stewardess. Jessop had to dress down to make herself less attractive in order to be hired. At age 21, her first stewardess position was with the Royal Mail Line aboard the Orinoco in 1908. Olympic In 1910, Jessop started working as a stewardess for the White Star vessel RMS Olympic. The Olympic was a luxury ship that was the largest civilian liner at that time. Jessop was on board on 20 September 1911, when the Olympic left from Southampton and collided with the British warship HMS Hawke. There were no fatalities and despite damage, the ship was able to make it back to port without sinking. Jessop chose not to discuss this collision in her memoirs. Titanic Jessop boarded the RMS Titanic as a stewardess on 10 April 1912, at age 24. Four days later, on 14 April, it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, where Titanic sank a little more than two hours after the collision. Jessop described in her memoirs how she was ordered up on deck, because she was to function as an example of how to behave for the non-English speakers who could not follow the instructions given to them. She watched as the crew loaded the lifeboats. She was later ordered into lifeboat 16 ; and as the boat was being lowered, one of the Titanic 's officers gave her a baby to look after. The next morning, Jessop and the rest of the survivors were rescued by the RMS Carpathia. According to Jessop, while on board the Carpathia, a woman, presumably the baby 's mother, grabbed the baby she was holding and ran off with it without saying a word. Britannic During the First World War, Jessop served as a stewardess for the British Red Cross. On the morning of 21 November 1916, she was on board the HMHS Britannic, a White Star liner that had been converted into a hospital ship, when it sank in the Aegean Sea due to an unexplained explosion. The Britannic sank within 55 minutes, killing 30 out of the 1,066 people on board. British authorities hypothesized that the ship was either struck by a torpedo or hit a mine planted by German forces. Conspiracy theories have even circulated that suggest the British were responsible for sinking their own ship. Scientists have been unable to reach definitive conclusions as to the true cause. While the Britannic was sinking, Jessop and other passengers were nearly killed by the boat 's propellers that were sucking lifeboats under the stern. Jessop had to jump out of her lifeboat resulting in a traumatic head injury which she survived. In her memoirs, she described the scene she witnessed as the Britannic went under : `` The white pride of the ocean 's medical world... dipped her head a little, then a little lower and still lower. All the deck machinery fell into the sea like a child 's toys. Then she took a fearful plunge, her stern rearing hundreds of feet into the air until with a final roar, she disappeared into the depths. '' Jessop returned to work for the White Star Line in 1920. Later life This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2016 ) After the war, Jessop continued to work for the White Star Line, before joining the Red Star Line and then the Royal Mail Line again. During her tenure with Red Star, Jessop went on two around the world cruises on the company 's largest ship, the Belgenland. In her late thirties, Jessop had a brief marriage, and in 1950 she retired to Great Ashfield, Suffolk. Years after her retirement, Jessop claimed to have received a telephone call, on a stormy night, from a woman who asked Jessop if she saved a baby on the night that the Titanic sank. `` Yes, '' Jessop replied. The voice then said `` I was that baby, '' laughed, and hung up. Her friend and biographer John Maxtone - Graham said it was most likely some children in the village playing a joke on her. She replied, `` No, John, I had never told that story to anyone before I told you now. '' Records indicate that the only baby on boat 16 was Assad Thomas, who was handed to Edwina Troutt, and later reunited with his mother on the Carpathia. Jessop, often winkingly called `` Miss Unsinkable '', died of congestive heart failure in 1971 at the age of 83. In popular culture In the 1958 film A Night To Remember, a scene depicts naval architect Thomas Andrews ( Michael Goodliffe ) instructing a stewardess to be seen wearing her lifebelt as an example to the other passengers. Many scenes from this film inspired similar and in some cases, almost dialogue - identical scenes in James Cameron 's later 1997 blockbuster Titanic, including a similar scene between Andrews and a stewardess named Lucy. She can also be seen earlier in this film, setting things up in the background of first - class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater 's suite. In Britannic, a TV movie made in the year 2000, the main character is Vera Campbell, played by ( Amanda Ryan ), a woman apprehensive about travelling on the Britannic due to surviving the sinking of the Titanic four years earlier. This character background is almost certainly lifted from the real - life Jessop, who survived both sinkings. In 2006, ' Shadow Divers ' John Chatterton and Richie Kohler lead an expedition to dive HMHS Britannic. The dive team needed to accomplish a number of tasks including reviewing the expansion joints. The team was looking for evidence that would change the thinking on RMS Titanic 's sinking. During the expedition, Rosemary E. Lunn played the role of Violet Jessop, re-enacting her jumping into the water, from her lifeboat which was being drawn into Britannic 's still turning propellers. The character of Jessop is also featured in the stage play Iceberg -- Right Ahead ! by Chris Burgess, staged for the first time Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of Titanic. It was billed as ' A dramatic account of the last twelve hours in the life of an ' unsinkable ship '. From the calm afternoon of 14 April 1912 to the rescue by RMS Carpathia on the morning of 15 April '. Jessop 's role was played by Amy - Joyce Hastings. References ^ Jump up to : Damon, Duane ( April 2012 ). `` Angel of the White Star Violet Jessop ''. Cobblestone. Vol. 33 no. 4. p. 16. Jump up ^ Kaplan, David A. ; Underwood, Anne ( 25 November 1996 ). `` The iceberg cometh ''. Newsweek. Vol. 128 no. 22. ^ Jump up to : Jessop, Violet ; Maxton - Graham, John ( 1997 ). Titanic Survivor. Dobbs Ferry, New York : Sheridan House. ISBN 1 - 57409 - 184 - 0. Jump up ^ `` Violet Jessop Biography ''. Biography.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 26 April 2016. ^ Jump up to : Solomon Reid, Deborah ( 1 January 1998 ). `` Titanic survivor : the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters ''. The Women 's Review of Books. 15 : 9. Jump up ^ Stanley, Jo ( April 2000 ). `` With Cutlass and Compress : Women 's Relations with the Sea ''. Gender & History. 12 ( 1 ) : 232 -- 236. ISSN 0953 - 5233. ^ Jump up to : Upton, Emily ( 28 January 2014 ). `` The woman who survived all three disasters aboard the sister ships : The Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic ''. Today I Found Out.com. Retrieved 26 April 2016. Jump up ^ Protasio, John ( 2012 ). `` A Titanic Centennial ''. Naval History. 26 ( 2 ) : 48. ^ Jump up to : Gleick, Elizabeth ; Carassava, Anthee ( 26 October 1998 ). `` Deep Secrets ''. Time International ( South Pacific Edition ). No. 43. p. 72. ^ Jump up to : Wynn, Stephen ; Wynn, Tanya ( 31 May 2017 ). Women in the Great War. Pen & Sword Books Limited. p. 87. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4738 - 6542 - 6. Jump up ^ Jessop, Violet ( 4 April 2012 ). Titanic Survivor. Sheridan House. p. 224. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4617 - 4032 - 2. Jump up ^ `` Remembering Britannic 's Violet Jessop ''. The Underwater Marketing Company. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2017. Jump up ^ `` Iceberg -- Right Ahead ! ''. Ovation Theatres. Retrieved 14 August 2017. External links Violet Jessop at Find a Grave `` Violet Constance Jessop ''. Encyclopedia Titanica. `` England via Plymouth '' ( PDF ). Plymouth.gov.uk. p. 6. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 26 June 2015. Violet Jessop third from left ; with fellow Titanic Stewardesses at Millbay Dock, Plymouth England after return on SS Lapland April 1912 WorldCat Identities BIBSYS : 98056771 ISNI : 0000 0000 3444 0670 LCCN : n97034778 SUDOC : 168359561 VIAF : 75597227 RMS Titanic First class facilities Second and Third class facilities Grand Staircase Musicians Sinking Alternative theories Changes in safety practices Legends and myths Lifeboats Lifeboat No. 1 British inquiry US inquiry Wreck of Titanic Maritime Memorial Act Deck officers Edward J. Smith ( Captain ) Henry Tingle Wilde ( Chief Officer ) William McMaster Murdoch ( First Officer ) Charles H. Lightoller ( Second Officer ) Herbert Pitman ( Third Officer ) Joseph G. Boxhall ( Fourth Officer ) Harold G. Lowe ( Fifth Officer ) James Paul Moody ( Sixth Officer ) Joseph Bell ( Machine Room Manager ) Crew members Frederick Barrett Harold Bride William Denton Cox Sid Daniels Alfred Frank Evans Frederick Fleet Luigi Gatti Robert Hichens Violet Jessop Charles Joughin Reginald Lee Evelyn Marsden William Mintram Jack Phillips George Symons Passengers Fatalities Allison family Thomas Andrews John Jacob Astor IV David John Bowen Archibald Butt Thomas Byles Roderick Chisholm Walter Donald Douglas Edith Corse Evans Annie Funk Jacques Futrelle Sidney Leslie Goodwin Benjamin Guggenheim John Harper Wallace Hartley Charles Melville Hays Edward Austin Kent Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche Francis Davis Millet Harry Markland Molson Michel Navratil Eino Viljami Panula W.T. Stead Ida Straus Isidor Straus John Borland Thayer Jr. Frank M. Warren, Sr. George Dennick Wick George Dunton Widener Harry Elkins Widener Duane Williams George Henry Wright Survivors ( last living ) Rhoda Abbott Trevor Allison Lillian Asplund Madeleine Astor Ruth Becker Lawrence Beesley Karl Behr Dickinson Bishop Mauritz Håkan Björnström - Steffansson Elsie Bowerman Francis Browne Margaret `` Molly '' Brown Daniel Buckley Alden Caldwell Helen Churchill Candee Charlotte Drake Cardeza Lucile Carter Gladys Cherry Millvina Dean Margaret Devaney Sir Cosmo Duff - Gordon Lucy, Lady Duff - Gordon Ethel Flora Fortune Dorothy Gibson Archibald Gracie IV Frank John William Goldsmith Edith Haisman Henry S. Harper Eva Hart Margaret Bechstein Hays Masabumi Hosono J. Bruce Ismay Eleanor Ileen Johnson Louise Laroche Louise Kink Margaret Mannion Michel Marcel Navratil Alfred Nourney Arthur Godfrey Peuchen Winnifred Quick Marjorie Newell Robb Edith Rosenbaum Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes Emily Ryerson Beatrice Sandström Frederic Kimber Seward Eloise Hughes Smith Jack Thayer Marian Thayer Barbara West Ella Holmes White R. Norris Williams Marie Grice Young Monuments and memorials General Memorials and monuments to the RMS Titanic Australia Bandstand ( Ballarat ) United Kingdom Engine Room Heroes ( Liverpool ) Engineers ( Southampton ) Musicians ( Southampton ) Titanic ( Belfast ) Orchestra ( Liverpool ) United States Straus Park ( New York City ) Titanic ( New York City ) Titanic ( Washington, D.C. ) Butt - Millet Memorial Fountain ( Washington, D.C. ) Popular culture ( cultural legacy ) Books The Wreck of the Titan : Or, Futility ( 1898 ) A Night to Remember ( book ) Polar the Titanic Bear Films Saved from the Titanic ( 1912 ) In Nacht und Eis ( 1912 ) Atlantic ( 1929 ) Titanic ( 1943 ) Titanic ( 1953 ) A Night to Remember ( 1958 ) The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ) Raise the Titanic ( 1980 ) Secrets of the Titanic ( 1986 ) Titanica ( 1992 ) Titanic ( 1997 ) The Legend of the Titanic ( 1999 ) Titanic : The Legend Goes On ( 2000 ) Ghosts of the Abyss ( 2003 ) Tentacolino ( 2004 ) Titanic II ( 2010 ) Television S.O.S. Titanic ( 1979 ) Titanic : The Complete Story ( 1994 ) Titanic ( 1996 ) No Greater Love ( 1996 ) `` A Flight to Remember '' ( Futurama ) ( 1999 ) Titanic ( 2012 ) Titanic : Blood and Steel ( 2012 ) Saving the Titanic ( 2012 ) Music `` The Titanic ( It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down ) '' ( folk song ) The Sinking of the Titanic ( music composition ) Titanic ( musical ) The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( musical ) `` My Heart Will Go On '' ( Celine Dion song ) `` Nearer, My God, to Thee '' ( song ) Video games Titanic : Adventure Out of Time ( 1996 ) Dive to the Titanic ( 2010 ) Titanic VR ( 2018 ) Titanic : Honor and Glory ( TBA ) Museums and exhibitions SeaCity Museum ( Southampton ) Titanic Museum ( Branson, Missouri ) Titanic Museum ( Pigeon Forge, Tennessee ) Maritime Museum of the Atlantic ( Halifax ) Titanic Belfast Places Titanic ( Canada ) Titanic Canyon Titanic Quarter, Belfast Cape Race, Newfoundland Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Mount Olivet Cemetery ( Halifax ) Related Ships RMS Olympic RMS Carpathia HMHS Britannic CS Mackay - Bennett SS Californian Replica Titanic Titanic II Others White Star Line David Blair Arthur Rostron Stanley Lord Titanic Historical Society Encyclopedia Titanica Halomonas titanicae Women and children first SOS CQD Robert Ballard Commons Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Violet_Jessop&oldid=865065211 '' Categories : RMS Titanic 's crew and passengers People from Bahía Blanca 1887 births 1971 deaths Shipwreck survivors RMS Titanic survivors Argentine people of Irish descent Argentine emigrants to England English people of Irish descent British Merchant Service personnel of World War I Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from May 2017 Use British English from May 2017 Articles with hCards Articles needing additional references from April 2016 All articles needing additional references Find a Grave template with ID same as Wikidata Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Deutsch Español Français Հայերեն Italiano Magyar മലയാളം Português Română Русский Suomi Svenska Українська 中文 7 more Edit links This page was last edited on 21 October 2018, at 13 : 55 ( UTC ). 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Question: who is the lady that survived the titanic
Answer: Violet Constance Jessop