Violet Jessop, however, had hers, remembering what she had missed. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. When the HMHS Britannic sank during World War I, few survivors emerged with a toothbrush.

From Jessop's unusual vantage point, we learn what life was like for those who worked on the ships: hilarious fellow stewardesses, cramped quarters, wartime alerts, impossible passengers ('the haughty, gimlet eyes of a certain well-known society woman'), philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths. These memoirs give us a unique glimpse of life below decks aboard one of the great ocean liners.

While in the lifeboat, someone threw her a 'forgotten baby', and she watched, fascinated as the ship went down 'as if by looking I could keep her afloat.' Four years later, she was a wartime nurse aboard the hospital ship, Britannic, when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. After her last voyage, she lived the rest of her life in Suffolk, England. She worked aboard ships into her sixties, traveling all over the world. Violet Jessop's description of the sinking is chilling as she sees to the needs of the passengers before finding a warm coat for herself. Violet Jessop(1887-1971) was a maritime stewardess and nurse who survived the sinking of both the Titanicand Britannic. I was secretly afraid' admits Violet Jessop in this unique eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. This works gives us a glimpse of life below decks aboard one of the great ocean liners. She took a job as a ships stewardess and was aboard RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912. Violet Jessops life is an inspiring story of survival. Offers an eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century.

Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop