WHAT DID TITANIC SURVIVOR VIOLET JESSOP DO THAT NO OTHER WOMAN HAS EVER DONE IN NAVAL HISTORY?

HISTORY'S HIDDEN STORIES / Titanic: Violet Jessop
History’s Hidden Stories/The bazaar story of Violet Jessop’s survival from multiple shipwrecks
There are many incredible stories of survivors from the sinking of the Titanic but none stranger than the lady who became known as “The Unsinkable Woman”, Violet Jessop.
Her strange story begins in 1911 when she is hired by the White Star Ship Line as a stewardess. She is assigned to the Olympic the first of the three Olympic-class Ocean liners built by the White Star Line.
She is onboard September 20, 1911, when it collides with the British warship HMS Hawke in the English Channel. The Olympic was badly damaged but did not sink. She survived but this would not be Violet Jessop’s last White Star shipwreck
She remained with White Star Lines and was on board the Titanic the night it struck s an iceberg and sinks on April 14th 1916. Violet was asleep in her room when the ship hit the iceberg. She dressed quickly and made her way up the main deck where panic ensued. She was eventually put into lifeboat 16, which was one of the last lifeboats to be launched. She was one of only 705 survivors who were rescued by the RMS Carpathia but again this was not her last rescue from a shipwreck
Following the Titanic sinking in 1916 she was assigned to the White Star HMHS Britannic serving as a hospital ship in wartime. Incredible the Britannic was sunk by a German mine in the Aegean Sea. Violet was swept off the ship and injured by the ship’s propeller but was rescued She was one of the 1,036 survivors.
All 3 ships were owned by White Star Lines, an incredible coincidence
Violet Jessop was the only woman in history to survive three shipwrecks including two of the most famous maritime disasters in history.
She died peacefully on May 5th 1971 at the age of 83..

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