Violet Constance Jessop worked as a ship stewardess and wartime nurse and became famous for surviving incidents involving all three Olympic-class liners: Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic.
Jessop was born in Argentina to Irish parents and later moved with her family to Britain.
She entered shipboard service while still young, eventually joining White Star Line.
Jessop served aboard Olympic when the liner collided with HMS Hawke in 1911. The ship survived and returned for repair.
She then joined Titanic as a stewardess for the 1912 maiden voyage.
During Titanic’s evacuation Jessop entered Lifeboat 16. Her later memoir recalled that she was handed a baby to care for during the evacuation, although the child’s identity is not securely established.
During World War I Jessop served as a nurse and was aboard the hospital ship Britannic when it sank in the Aegean in 1916.
She escaped Britannic after entering the water near moving lifeboats and propellers. Her later recollections describe being struck on the head during the escape.
Jessop returned to sea after the war and worked for many more years before retiring.
Her memoir was published long after the events and should be treated as valuable first-person recollection with the normal limits of memory.
For TransitSatellite, the three ship incidents should be shown as separate connected events rather than as one sensational “woman who sank three times” story.