10
Dec
2021
Dec
2021
Violet Constance Jessop
categories: Passion/History
Many people know the unsinkable Molly Brown. A passenger on the Titanic who survived the sinking and encouraged the lifeboats to go back and save the people in the water. She was only on one sinking ship, the very unsinkable if you ask me. Now the true unsinkable from the survivors of the RMS Titanic was Violet Constance Jessop.
Before Violet was even on the RMS Titanic she was on another cruise ship called the RMS Olympic. When the ship collided with a warship the ship was damaged but there were no casualties and the ship made it back to port safely.
Violet was a stewardess on the RMS Titanic. She said the ship was very amazing and full of luxury. On the night of the crash Violet was awoken by a scrapping and her roommate for the trip rolled over and said in the calmest manner: “It sounds as if something has happened”. She was ordered up on deck to look after some 3rd class passengers but was eventually ordered to leave the ship. She was given a bay to look after and after reach safety a woman came up, grabbed the baby from her arms, and ran away.
In November of 1916, Violet was working on the sister ship of the Titanic, the HMHS Britannica. It had been converted to a hospital ship and Violet was working as nurse. That morning it had run across a sea mine which had blown a hole in the side of the ship. The ship sank in 30 minutes killing 30/1066 people on board. Violet was one of the survivors. She jumped from her lifeboat to avoid being chopped up by the propeller. After all of this Violet went to work for White Star, the company that made the Titanic and Britannica, in 1920.
History many not remember Violet, the stewardess and nurse aboard the Titanic, as much compared to the rich and fancy Ms. Molly Brown but her story and memoir (her memoir is really good you should check it out) are a good tale of the world telling you to stay off ships and then not listening to that warning.