Saturday 30 April 2016

THE STORY OF VIOLET JESSOP

Violet Jessop:

At age 23 Violet boarded the RMS Olympic on June 14th,1911 to work as a stewardess.That ship then collided with the RMS Hawke,flooding two compartments and bending a propeller shaft.Yet she survived.

At 25 Violet boarded the RMS Titanic to work as a stewardess on April 10th,1912.Four days later the Titanic was struck by an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the ocean.Yet Violet survived again.

At age 29 Violet decided to work as a stewrdess for the HMS Britannic,serving for the British red cross.The ship struck a sea mine,and quickly sank into the Aegean sea.Yet she survived again.

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