A WORTHY THALASSOPHILE


VIOLET CONSTANCE JESSOP
(2 Oct 1887 - 5 May 1971)

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

             ~ David Searls
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The above quote I thought fits to the hilt the incredible story of a stewardess, Violet Constance Jessop, who volunteered as a nurse as well in WW1, a lady who defied the high seas in not just one, but in three maritime disasters...

The eldest of six siblings of Irish parents in Argentina, a 21 year-old Violet joined White Star Line as a stewardess, like her mother who shifted to England after her husband's demise...

1. RMS Olympic collision with HMS Hawke off the Isle of Wight, 20 September 1911. Both ships were badly damaged, but neither sank and there were no major casualties...

2. RMS Titanic disaster of 15 April 1912 over the North Atlantic Ocean, and hours later the survivors, including Violet, rescued by RMS Carpathia in a dramatic mission...

3. And Violet almost lost her life in the HMHS Britannic disaster, serving as a nurse on the makeshift hospital liner in WW1, which hit a German mine on 21 November 1916 over the Aegean Sea...

Though by a strange coincidence all three liners belonged to the same company, Violet was without doubt guarded by Providence...

Being in and out of the seas all the same till over her 60s, Violet eventually hit terra firma at Great Ashfield, Suffolk. She breathed her last, from heart ailments, this day in 1971, at the age of 83...


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