Violet Constance Lewis

Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Irish Argentine ocean liner stewardess and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both RMS Titanic and her sister ship, HMHS Britannic, in 1912 and 1916, respectively. In addition, she had been on board RMS Olympic, the eldest of the three sister ships, when it collided with a British warship in 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

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Titanic Crew Summary

Name: Miss Violet Constance Jessop
Titanic Survivor
Born: Saturday 1st October 1887 in Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina
Age: 24 years 6 months and 14 days (Female)
Nationality: English Argentinian
Marital Status: Single
Last Residence: in London, England
Occupation: Stewardess
Victualling Crew
Embarked: Southampton
Rescued (boat 16)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Wednesday 5th May 1971 in Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England aged 83 years
Buried: Hartest, Suffolk, England

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"Violet Constance Jessop, beloved sister, who died 5th. May 1971 in her 84th. year, fortified by rites of Holy Mother Church. On her soul sweet Jesus have mercy." Violet Jessop was born in the Argentine, the eldest of six children of Irish parents who had emigrated from Dublin in order to work as sheep farmers. In 1903, she sailed to England and became a stewardess on the White Star Line. During her long years of service, she was present on three disastrous occasions. On the 20th. September 1911, she was on board R.M.S. Olympic when it collided with H.M.S. Hawke. The following April, she was a stewardess to the First-Class passengers on the Titanic; and, on the 21st. November 1916, she was on the Brittanic when it struck a mine in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea, with the loss of 28 lives. In the late 1920s, she married John James Lewis, but the union was very brief. In 1950, she retired from the sea and bought a cottage in Great Ashfield, in Suffolk. However, she is buried in the nearby village of Hartest, next to her sister and brother-in-law, Eileen and Hubert Meehan. Her memoirs, "Titanic Survivor", were published in 1997.

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• Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
• Reference: From above wikipedia- Jessop boarded RMS Titanic as a stewardess on 10 April 1912, at age 24.[1] Four days later, on 14 April, it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, where Titanic sank a little more than two hours after the collision.[8] Jessop described in her memoirs how she was ordered up on deck, because she was to function as an example of how to behave for the non-English speakers who could not follow the instructions given to them.[3] She watched as the crew loaded the lifeboats.[1] She was later ordered into lifeboat 16; and as the boat was being lowered, one of Titanic's officers gave her a baby to look after. The next morning, Jessop and the rest of the survivors were rescued by the RMS Carpathia. According to Jessop, while on board Carpathia, a woman, presumably the baby's mother, grabbed the baby she was holding and ran off with it without saying a word.[7]
• Reference: Full text- https://archive.org/details/truthabouttitani00grac/page/n6 "The Truth About the Titanic" by Colonel Archibald Gracie, IV 1913 pp. 170-172

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• Residence: 1895 - Cuartel 11 (Población rural), Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Вайолетт Констанс Джессоп (англ. Violet Constance Jessop) (1 октября 1887 года, Байя-Бланка, Аргентина — 5 мая 1971 года, Грейт-Эшфилд, Суффолк, Восточная Англия) — стюардесса океанских лайнеров пассажирской компании «White Star Line». Вайолетт Джессоп служила на всех лайнерах класса «Олимпик» и, соответственно, была очевидцем инцидентов с ними. Вайолетт Джессоп была на борту «Олимпика», столкнувшегося с крейсером «Хоук»; на борту «Титаника», столкнувшегося с айсбергом; и, во время Первой мировой войны, она служила сестрой милосердия на борту госпитального судна «Британик», затонувшего после подрыва на мине. Присутствие на борту всех трёх лайнеров класса «Олимпик» во время катастрофических для них инцидентов сделало историю жизни Вайолетт Джессоп популярной среди исследователей катастрофы «Титаника».
Вайолетт Джессоп родилась в семье ирландских эмигрантов Уилльяма Джессоп и Кэтрин Келли, которые жили около Баия-Бланки в Аргентине. Уилльям Джессоп эмигрировал из Дублина в середине 1880-х годов, чтобы попробовать в Аргентине силы в разведении овец. Кэтрин переехала вслед за ним в 1886 году. Вайолетт была первым из девяти детей, из которых трое умерли в детстве. Сама Вайолетт в детстве заразилась туберкулёзом, но, несмотря на предсказания доктора, выжила. После того, как умер её отец, Вайолетт и её семья переехали в Великобританию, где она училась в школе при женском монастыре. После того, как её мать заболела, она покинула школу, чтобы идти работать стюардессой на богатых лайнерах.