Titanic Survivor Jessop VioletPaperback
Titanic Survivor Jessop VioletPaperback Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking…
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Titanic Survivor Jessop VioletPaperback
Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day.
But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of "One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field." For most people one sinking would be enough.