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First Class Stewardess Violet Jessop (1887–1971)
"Each day it was more difficult to ignore the pettiness, artificiality and frothy gaiety that encompassed a stewardess' life aboard ship."
Two weeks after the Titanic disaster, Jessop returned to the sea as a stewardess aboard Olympic. In 1916, as a World War I nurse, she survived the sinking of Titanic's sister ship, HMHS Britannic, in the Aegean Sea. Jessop jumped from her lifeboat right before Britannic's still-turning starboard propeller smashed it to pieces. She retired from shipboard service in 1950. |