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Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by ALAGOGO007(m): 11:21am On Jan 31, 2020
Probably in folklore tales or in epic stories, you might have heard about people with nine lives, I means those who refused to give death a chance.These super humans always finds a way to escape death in bizarre ways such is JESSOP VIOLET.

Born on the 2 october 1887 Jessop 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 HMS Hawke, in 1911.

OLYMPIC ESCAPE

In 1911, Jessop began working as a stewardess for the White Star vessel RMS Olympic.Olympic was a luxury ship that was the largest civilian liner at that time. Jessop was on board on 20 September 1911, when Olympic left from Southampton and collided with the British warship HMS Hawke. There were no fatalities and despite damage, the ship was able to make it back to port without sinking. Jessop chose not to discuss this collision in her memoirs.

TITANIC ESCAPE

Jessop boarded RMS Titanic as a stewardess on 10 April 1912, at age 24. 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. 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. She watched as the crew loaded the lifeboats. 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.

BRITANNIC ESCAPE

During the First World War, Jessop served as a stewardess for the British Red Cross. On the morning of 21 November 1916, she was on board HMHS Britannic, a White Star liner that had been converted into a hospital ship, when it sank in the Aegean Sea due to an unexplained explosion. During a major diving expedition on the wreck in 2016 it was determined that the ship had struck a deep sea mine. This was shown in the documentary film of that dive, entitled The Mystery of the Britannic.

Britannic sank within 55 minutes, killing 30 out of the 1,066 people on board. British authorities hypothesised that the ship was either struck by a torpedo or hit a mine planted by German forces. Conspiracy theories have even circulated that suggest the British were responsible for sinking their own ship.

While Britannic was sinking, Jessop and other passengers were nearly killed by the boat's propellers that were sucking lifeboats under the stern. Jessop had to jump out of her lifeboat resulting in a traumatic head injury which she survived. In her memoirs, she described the scene she witnessed as Britannic went under: "The white pride of the ocean's medical world ... dipped her head a little, then a little lower and still lower. All the deck machinery fell into the sea like a child's toys. Then she took a fearful plunge, her stern rearing hundreds of feet into the air until with a final roar, she disappeared into the depths.

Jessop, often winkingly called "Miss Unsinkable", died of congestive heart failure in 1971 at the age of 83.

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Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by Nobody: 11:22am On Jan 31, 2020
Okay
Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by Flexherbal(m): 11:52am On Jan 31, 2020
These are the category of people, worth celebrating.

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Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by Nobody: 12:12pm On Jan 31, 2020
Na she dey cause am
Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by Racoon(m): 12:20pm On Jan 31, 2020
The good have really blessed her with long life.
Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by jahabless: 5:11pm On Jan 31, 2020
AmiciLord:
Na she dey cause am
Our black race mentality, mba.
Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by promzy555(m): 10:57pm On Jan 31, 2020
AmiciLord:
Na she dey cause am
u b real Africa man

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Re: Violet Jessopthe Woman Who Survived 3 Sinking Ships.titanic,olympic And Britanic by darfay: 2:58am On Feb 01, 2020
If I use mistake enter same ship with her omo na to jaapa

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