She Survived 3 Ship Sinkings But It Didn't Stop Her

the icy water squeezes your chest and you can't breathe deeply you hear people shouting it's late at night and the endless sea mixes with the black and starry sky you're scared and cold the

ship

you were on board is sinking in The deep ocean people who have been in a

ship

wreck often remain afraid of water for the rest of their lives, but the woman whose story you will hear

survived

not one, not even two, but three boat disasters and continued working on cruise ships as a stewardess meets violet jessup miss unsinkable her childhood can be described in one word she had to grow up quickly to take care of her siblings violet was the eldest of nine children life became even more difficult when she became seriously ill the doctors were sure that she would not survive but she did at an early age she moved to england with her mother she took care of her sisters and attended a nun's school her mother worked as a stewardess at sea and when she became ill the young violet followed in her footsteps but due to her youth and beauty, no one wanted to hire her, they thought she would distract the passengers and the crew.

Violet did not give up and arrived at one of the interviews in her worst clothes and with her hair disheveled, she wanted to show that she was ready for hard work. On the ship and she had it, the girl was hired. The first two years passed calmly, but then a series of incredible fortunes or misfortunes began, depending on how you look at it. In 1910, Violeta got a job on the most luxurious liner of the time, the Royal, the Olympic mail ship, the ship. He sailed across the Atlantic from England to America the engineers did not focus on the speed of the ship but on its comfort Violet worked on the ship and was paid only two pounds a month the same as 200 pounds today hard work on the deck of the ship since morning until night did not scare violet she loved the work she liked talking to people and enjoyed the beautiful views of the atlantic so on september 20, 1911 violet worked on the deck as usual the sea was calm and the weather was excellent nothing sailed badly the ship sailed through the strait of solent that separates the isle of wight from the british mainland at that moment the british military cruiser hawk appeared ahead it should have passed by the olympic but something went wrong the ships headed one towards the other the captain of the olympics tried to maneuver to avoid a collision but failed the bow of the falcon was designed specifically to ram other ships at that moment it collided with the olympic boom the liner closed and people screamed in fear and panic the ship It had a huge hole on the starboard side.

Violet fell due to the force of the blow. It seemed that one of the largest ocean liners of its time was going to sink, but luckily that was not the case, both ships stayed afloat and no one was injured. This time, fortune was on the side. Violet's side, the accident on the boat did not scare the young woman, she did not think twice and continued working as a stewardess. In April 1912, she accepted a job on the best unsinkable ship of the time, where she was supposed to serve the VIPs at the time. At first he

didn

't.

She wanted to work on this ship but her friends persuaded her and so she boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912 and left the port of Southampton, for better or worse. The first days of work were peaceful, but on the fourth day of the trip, one of the most disasters. notorious in the world happened violet was resting in her cabin she was almost asleep when she felt the jolt at that moment she was called to the upper deck when the titanic hit the iceberg almost no one panicked no one believed that the unsinkable ship could actually sink At the moment when the ship's hold was filled with water, everyone was calm on the upper decks, Violet along with other waiters was present during the evacuation to the lifeboats, the women and children were evacuated first, then one of the Ship officers ordered Violet into a boat to show the other women that it was perfectly safe when she did so, others followed her and someone suddenly placed a swaddled baby in her hands without a second thought.

Violet held the child to her chest to keep him warm as the Titanic sank. She did not do it. She let go of the baby until her lifeboat was picked up by the Carpathians. A ship came to the rescue. Already on board the ship, a woman ran towards her. She

didn

't say a word and snatched the child from Violet's hands. Violet thought that the woman was the one. mother of the baby, so she did not try to get him back. She was too cold and numb to think about how strange it was that this woman had not thanked the savior of her baby many years later.

Violet would remember this boy under Unusual Circumstances After successfully surviving one of the most horrific shipwrecks in history, Violet continued to work at sea against all odds. In 1916 she accepted a job as a nurse on the hospital ship Britannic, sister of the Olympic and of the Titanic, which sailed in the Aegean Sea. sea ​​on November 21 the ship took a route it had already sailed several times but on that particular day it was unlucky the britannic collided with a violet underwater mine it managed to survive the third shipwreck in its life this rescue was not as easy as the two previous although after the explosion the huge britannic began to sink rapidly the ship took less than an hour to sink completely violet did not have time to board a lifeboat so he jumped overboard into the cold water there he swam to the lifeboat more Close and climbed in, but the rescue became a new danger.

The boat's propellers were still running. They were spinning in the water and pulling the boat towards them. Violet jumped off the boat just in time to escape the propellers, but her ordeal was far away. After ending up in the water, she was dragged under the keel of the boat and hit her head. The only thing that saved her from losing consciousness and probably her life was her thick hair. In the end, Violet escaped from the engine and was picked up by another boat for the The next few years Violet was plagued by headaches when she finally went to the doctor, he told her that she had been very lucky as a result of the incident at the Britannic.

She had a skull fracture. Three disasters that Violet managed to survive did not

stop

her. She continued working on cruise ships until 1950. She toured the world twice on a luxurious cruise ship on Belgian land. Fortunately, the series of mishaps ended and Violet was never shipwrecked again. In 1950 she moved to Great Ashfield in Suffolk where she had worked at sea. After almost 42 years content with her career, she settled in a large cabin built in the 16th century, but a year after her retirement she received a strange phone call. It was late at night. Violet was asleep when the phone rang.

She took it. There was a woman's voice on the other end of the line, the lady did not introduce herself and immediately asked, Excuse me, were you the one who saved a baby on the titanic? Violet answered yes, it was me. The strange woman said, Violet laughed and hung up on her. She told this to her friend named Stranger, she assumed some kids were playing a prank on her, but Violet had never told anyone about the baby before that call, according to old records, the only child who was on the ship with Violet was a child, but those same records also said that The child had been saved by another passenger.

It is still unknown who the baby Violet rescued was, so for surviving three different accidents on three different shifts, she was aptly nicknamed Miss Unsinkable.