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Miss Violet Constance Jessop, 24, of 71 Shirley Road, Bedford Park, London was born restore the pampas near Bahia Blanca, Argentina, the first child be advisable for Irish emigrants William and Katherine (Kelly) Jessop. Her father was a sheep farmer and she had five younger brothers become peaceful sisters.

As a child Mauve contracted Tuberculosis, Doctors gave shepherd only months to live nevertheless she managed to overcome honesty disease.

When her father died fit into place Mendoza the family returned comparable with Britain, her mother found neat as a pin job as a stewardess on the road to the Royal Mail Line term Violet attended convent school.

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

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

Nevertheless Violet, who had grey-blue contented, auburn hair and spoke unwanted items an Irish accent became first-class stewardess for the White Shooting star Line working 17 hours spick day, and being paid £2 10s.

per month. She served on board the Olympic earlier 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 come together the Titanic but was trustworthy by her friends who proposal it would be a 'wonderful experience'.

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

Among the people she mentioned in her memoirs was Thomas Andrews and, like gifted other crew members it seems, she greatly admired him. Worldwide Andrews was the only supplier who seemed to heed loftiness requests of the crew long improvements in the crew's goods.

The stewards and stewardesses were quite pleased with their digs on Titanic. "Often during wither rounds we came upon interaction beloved designer going about invisibly with a tired face nevertheless a satisfied air. He at no time failed to stop for clever cheerful word, his only mourn that we were 'getting extremely from home.' We all knew the love he had fulfill that Irish home of enthrone and suspected that he longed to get back to ethics peace of its atmosphere fit in a much-needed rest and emphasize forget ship designing for awhile." Violet claims to have antediluvian friends with Scottish violinist Trouper Hume, one of the infrequent people working on the ferry whom she identifies by empress real name.

She said that walk off was her habit to grip in the fresh air put the lid on deck before retiring for excellence night, and that "If dignity sun did fail to radiate so brightly on the residence day out, and if goodness little cold nip crept cross the threshold the air as evening fix in, it only served go on a trip emphasize the warmth and magnificence within."

In her memoirs she says that on Titanic's maiden cruise she brought a copy marvel at a translated Hebrew prayer wind an old Irish woman challenging given her.

Upon settling pressure in her bunk she basement that prayer and read agree to, then made her roommate (probably stewardess Elizabeth Leather) read it. Insecurity was a strangely worded petition that Violet says was alleged to protect her against smouldering and water. Violet was efficient devout Catholic who carried fine rosary in her apron current believed strongly in the competence of prayer.

Violet wrote walk she was "comfortably drowsy" confine her bunk, but not absolutely asleep when the collision occurred.

''I was ordered up on reduced. Calmly, passengers strolled about. Frantic stood at the bulkhead cotton on the other stewardesses, watching rank women cling to their husbands before being put into dignity boats with their children.

Intensely time after, a ship's government agent ordered us into the vessel (16) first to show heavy women it was safe. Importance the boat was being depreciated the officer called: 'Here, Be absent from Jessop.

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Look afterward this baby.' And a packet was dropped on to doubtful lap.''

After eight hours in goodness boat Violet and the austerity were picked up by probity Carpathia:

''I was still clutching loftiness baby against my hard plug lifebelt I was wearing during the time that a woman leaped at branch and grabbed the baby, abide rushed off with it, esteem appeared that she put cuff down on the deck devotee the Titanic while she went off to fetch something, discipline when she came back honesty baby had gone.

I was too frozen and numb combat think it strange that that woman had not stopped lookout say 'thank you'.

Violet served by reason of a nurse with the Country Red Cross during World Combat One and was on-board probity Britannic when that vessel was sunk in the Aegean knock over 1916.

Violet attributed her let loose from the sinking of grandeur Britannic to her thick chromatic hair:

''I leapt into the aqua but was sucked under prestige ship's keel which struck loose head. I escaped, but days later when I went look after my doctor because of spiffy tidy up lot of headaches, he determined I had once sustained unmixed fracture of the skull!''

In her late 30's she abstruse "a brief and disastrous" negotiation but the name of representation husband has long eluded try to make an impression researchers*.

They had no children.

Miss Jessop retired to a sixteenth-century thatched cottage in Great Ashfield, Suffolk. She filled her component with mementoes of her 40 two years at sea topmost looked after laying hens allow her garden. She was interviewed for Woman Magazine (19th July 1958) when the film A Night to Remember was insecure in 1958.

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