Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76AVT)
Violet Jessop was born in Argentina in 1887, the eldest of nine children. She survived tuberculosis as a child, contrary to doctors' predictions. At 21, she became a stewardess for Royal Mail Line. Then she boarded three White Star ships, and all three met with disaster. - Read the rest
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