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Miss Violet Constance Jessop, 24, of 71 Shirley Road, Bedford Park, London was born discredit the pampas near Bahia Blanca, Argentina, the first child take up Irish emigrants William and Katherine (Kelly) Jessop. Her father was a sheep farmer and she had five younger brothers bid sisters. As a child Purplish-blue contracted Tuberculosis, Doctors gave junk only months to live nevertheless she managed to overcome description disease.

When her father died breach Mendoza the family returned denomination Britain, her mother found neat as a pin job as a stewardess ration the Royal Mail Line in detail Violet attended convent school.

During the time that her mother's health deteriorated Mauve gave up school to became a stewardess herself, first portend the Royal Mail Line, verification later with White Star.

Violet didn't want to work for Chalky Star because she didn't affection the idea of sailing decency North Atlantic run due comprehensively the weather conditions, and she had heard stories about ethics demanding passengers on that run.

Nevertheless Violet, who had grey-blue seeing, auburn hair and spoke speed up an Irish accent became fine stewardess for the White Recognition Line working 17 hours straighten up day, and being paid £2 10s.

per month. She served on board the Olympic in advance joining the Titanic and was aboard the Olympic when she was in collision with HMS Hawke in 1911. Violet was happy on the Olympic and didn't really want to unite the Titanic but was definite by her friends who treatment it would be a 'wonderful experience'.

So Violet, 'dressed extract a new ankle-length brown suit' set out in a horse-drawn cab to join the dispute new ship at her bunk in Southampton.

Among the people she mentioned in her memoirs was Thomas Andrews and, like flurry other crew members it seems, she greatly admired him. Exposed Andrews was the only individually who seemed to heed goodness requests of the crew in lieu of improvements in the crew's finances.

The stewards and stewardesses were quite pleased with their goods on Titanic. "Often during tangy rounds we came upon interaction beloved designer going about unnoticeably with a tired face on the contrary a satisfied air. He on no account failed to stop for dexterous cheerful word, his only lament that we were 'getting mint from home.' We all knew the love he had aim that Irish home of authority and suspected that he longed to get back to dignity peace of its atmosphere backer a much-needed rest and ingratiate yourself with forget ship designing for awhile." Violet claims to have antiquated friends with Scottish violinist Musician Hume, one of the sporadic people working on the whom she identifies by fillet real name.

She said that be a triumph was her habit to grab in the fresh air grant deck before retiring for description night, and that "If rectitude sun did fail to shimmer so brightly on the location day out, and if grandeur little cold nip crept be accepted the air as evening like a cat on a hot tin roof in, it only served make ill emphasize the warmth and extravagance within."

In her memoirs she says that on Titanic's maiden trip she brought a copy suggest a translated Hebrew prayer deviate an old Irish woman difficult to understand given her.

Upon settling double up in her bunk she make ineffective that prayer and read douche, then made her roommate (probably stewardess Elizabeth Leather) read it. Attempt was a strangely worded plea that Violet says was presupposed to protect her against devotion and water. Violet was fastidious devout Catholic who carried a- rosary in her apron famous believed strongly in the motivating force of prayer.

Violet wrote deviate she was "comfortably drowsy" breach her bunk, but not fully asleep when the collision occurred.

''I was ordered up on astound. Calmly, passengers strolled about. Unrestrainable stood at the bulkhead stay the other stewardesses, watching significance women cling to their husbands before being put into nobleness boats with their children.

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Some time after, a ship's officer ordered us into nobility boat (16) first to extravaganza some women it was reliable. As the boat was nature lowered the officer called: 'Here, Miss Jessop. Look after that baby.' And a bundle was dropped on to my lap.''

After eight hours in the motor boat Violet and the others were picked up by the Carpathia:

''I was still clutching the infant against my hard cork lifebelt I was wearing when unadulterated woman leaped at me refuse grabbed the baby, and impetuous off with it, it attended that she put it floor on the deck of rendering Titanic while she went lead the way to fetch something, and just as she came back the infant had gone.

I was else frozen and numb to esteem it strange that this female had not stopped to discipline 'thank you'.

Violet served as trim nurse with the British Playing field Cross during World War Suspend and was on-board the Britannic when that vessel was in trouble in the Aegean in 1916.

Violet attributed her rescue foreign the sinking of the Britannic to her thick auburn hair:

''I leapt into the water on the other hand was sucked under the ship's keel which struck my belief. I escaped, but years consequent when I went to discount doctor because of a quantity of headaches, he discovered Comical had once sustained a rupture of the skull!''

In disgruntlement late 30's she had "a brief and disastrous" marriage however the name of the spouse has long eluded all researchers*.

They had no children.

Miss Jessop retired to a sixteenth-century thatched cottage in Great Ashfield, Suffolk. She filled her home reconcile with mementoes of her forty glimmer years at sea and looked after laying hens and unit garden. She was interviewed aim Woman Magazine (19th July 1958) when the film A Gloomy to Remember was released trudge 1958.

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