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	Miss Violet Constance Jessop
		Violet was a devout Catholic who carried a rosary in her apron and believed strongly in the power of prayer.
		Violet wrote that she was "comfortably drowsy" in her bunk, but not quite asleep when the collision occurred.
		Violet Jessop (1997) Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography.php?id=1937 (831 words)

	Violet Jessop (1887 - 1971) - Find A Grave Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		Violet Jessop was married, briefly, in the late 1920's, to a fellow crew member, but the marriage was so unsuccessful that her family do not know the name of her husband.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6826130 (222 words)

	Violet Jessop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Violet Jessop was born to William and Katherine Jessop, Irish emigrants living near Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
		Violet Jessop was the first of nine children, only six of whom survived.
		Violet described in her memoirs that she was ordered up on deck where she watched as the crew loaded the lifeboats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violet_Jessop (498 words)

	Violet Jessop:survived three shipwrecks
		Violet Jessop was a born survivor who lived to tell the tale of three shipwrecks.
		Violet Jessop was born in the Argentine, daughter of sheep farmers who had emigrated to watch over the flocks grazing on the luxuriant pampas.
		Jessop was propelled overboard by the impact and sucked under the keel, striking her head in the turmoil.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /5may.htm (460 words)

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		Violet realized that with no income for the family, she would have to seek employment.
		Violet later served as a nurse with the British Red Cross during the First World War and incredibly was aboard the British hospital ship, Britannic, when it sank in the Aegean in 1916 after it struck a mine just recently laid by a German U-Boat.
		Violet wasn't as fortunate to board a life boat as she did in the Titanic disaster.
	www.titanic-whitestarships.com /MGY_Jessop.htm (1372 words)

	The curse of Violet Jessop
		Violet was standing in the background when an officer requested that she get into a lifeboat to set an example for the other women.
		Violet's lifeboat was also the last to be rescued by the Carpathia, which had turned back from a journey to the Mediterranean to help with the rescue.
		Not only did Violet Jessop have the privilege of being aboard the greatest ships of her time, but she had the honor of being the only woman to have survived all three of the ill fated sister ships.
	www.fortunecity.com /rainbow/bananaman/138/violet.htm (1406 words)

	Hospital Ship Britannic:The Disaster
		That seemed strange to Violet Jessop when compared with the calmness aboard Titanic after the collision with the iceberg, but during a war fear for the worst makes people foresee danger, especially when they are in uniform and they have already experienced the cruel reality of the front.
		Violet Jessop was one of their unlucky occupants as she was late picking up her personal belongings after assisting a sick friend and arrived on the boat deck when all the nurses had gone.
		Violet Jessop described the scene in a very vivid way :"...eyes were looking with unexpected horror at the debris and the red streaks all over the water.
	www.hospitalshipbritannic.com /the_disaster.htm (3488 words)

	TT Article - Biography Of Violet Jessop
		She was a Stewardess on the Olympic during the collision with H.M.S. Hawke in 1911, also a Stewardess on Titanic when she collided with an iceberg and subsequently foundered in 1912, and she was serving as a Nurse (V.A.D) when the Britannic struck a mine and sank in the Aegean in 1916.
		Violet was born on October 2nd 1887, in the Argentinean Pampas, to Irish parents: William and Katherine Jessop (nee Kelly).
		Violet devoted her life to stewardship, her career was to last 42 years (spanning from 1908 to 1950) serving with 4 different companies.¹ She married, but it was a failure, with the couple splitting up soon after the event.
	www.titanic-titanic.com /article_harriet_collingham_bio_violet_jessop.shtml (712 words)

	La verdadera historia del Titanic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Violet Jessop era la típica mujer a quien “la Paca”, Walter Mercado y otros chamanes le habrían recetado una “limpia.” Nacida en Buenos Aires, Argentina, era hija de un granjero británico.
		Violet encontró empleo como camarera en la empresa White Star Line, fundada en 1850 y dedicada al transporte de pasajeros en embarcaciones marinas.
		Violet Jessop figuraba nuevamente entre la tripulación que atendía las necesidades del “barco de los sueños.” Pero el 14 de abril, el barco más grande del mundo chocaría con un témpano de hielo y su hundimiento se concretaría en espacio de dos horas con 40 minutos.
	www.prodigyweb.net.mx /mcrosas/titanic.htm (3592 words)

	TITANIC Survivor - DISASTER AT SEA
		"Jessop writes with an easy and enviable felicity of insufferable charges ('The haughty, gimlet eyes of a certain well-known society woman'), the unwanted gropings from the male staff, her cramped quarters ('so small that one move suddenly meant disaster to some part of one's anatomy').
		Jessop ably conveys the complex passenger/steward relationship, which combined discreet social intimacy with a factotum's talent for handling all exigencies of shipboard life.
		Jessop was poised and graceful as a stewardess.
	www.sheridanhouse.com /catalog/disasteratsea/titanicsurv.html (610 words)

	HMHS Britannic
		At the same time, Violet Jessop, a nurse's aid onboard, was fixing a breakfast tray for a friend who was too sick to eat in the dinning room.
		Violet and a few others leaped out of the boats before they (the lifeboats) were cut to pieces.
		Violet survived, some of her co- workers were not so lucky.
	members.aol.com /WakkoW5/britannic.html (3214 words)

	Britannic
		Nurse Violet Jessop's instincts told her the ship was doomed.
		Violet Jessop in boat 4 which was being lowered at the time described the scene.
		The two motor launches picked up many survivors, including Violet Jessop, who had a fractured skull and a deep cut in her leg.
	www.geocities.com /great_liners/britannic_casualty.html (1097 words)

	Violet Jessop - Survivor of the Titanic, Olympic and Britannic Shipwrecks
		Violet closed her eyes and prayed as an icy breeze arose from the calmness of the night, like a knife to the skin from the darkness.
		The woman's voice at the other end asked "Is this the Violet Jessop who was a stewardess on the Titanic and rescued a baby?" "Yes", she responded, "who is this?" The woman laughed.
		Violet Jessop was probably the only rescued person with a toothbrush after the Britannic struck a mine and sank.
	www.johnshepler.com /articles/violet.html (1536 words)

	Violet Jessop
		Lucy Violet Snape; Stewardess, Katherine Walsh; Stewardess and Mrs.
		Violet was born on October 2nd 1887, in the Argentinean Pampas, to Irish parents: William and Katherine Jessop (nee Kelly).
		Violet devoted her life to stewardship, her career was to last 42 years (spanning from 1908 to 1950) serving with 4 different companies.¹ She married, but it was a failure, with the couple splitting up soon after the event.
	timanic1912.tripod.com /vj.html (730 words)

	Amazon.com: Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The photos in Violet Jessop's moving memoir reveal her to have been still lovelier than Titanic star Kate Winslet, but that only made her job harder as a stewardess aboard the ship.
		Jessop's account of her last conversation with another colleague, Stan, who saved her life by ordering her to hustle up to the lifeboat that his sex disqualified him from boarding, is touching.
		Violet Jessop went to sea as a stewardess on an ocean liner in 1908.
	www.amazon.com /Titanic-Survivor-Discovered-Britannic-Disasters/dp/1574090356 (1778 words)

	Miss Violet Constance Jessop \| MetaFilter
		Violet Jessop survived three White Star fleet shipwrecks.
		She was a stewardess onboard the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic, and a nurses aid on the HMHS Britannic.
		Violet didn't even know how to swim when her lifeboat was shredded by the Britannic's massive propellers.
	www.metafilter.com /22485/Miss-Violet-Constance-Jessop (141 words)

	Violet Constance Jessop
		Violet ne voulait pourtant pas travailler pour la White Star Line car elle n'aimait pas l'idée de voyager sur l'Atlantique Nord en raison des conditions météorologiques, et parce qu'elle avait entendu des histoires au sujet des passagers exigeants fréquentant cette ligne.
		Violet arriva donc dans un fiacre, "vêtue d'un tailleur marron lui arrivant à la cheville", pour prendre son service le 10 Avril 1912 à 6 h dans le paquebot flambant neuf à son quai de Southampton.
		Violet prétendait avoir été amie avec le violoniste irlandais Jock Hume, l'une des rares personnes travaillant sur le navire qu'elle identifiait par son véritable nom.
	perso.orange.fr /titanic/page98.htm (887 words)

	Notes in the Margin Template
		Violet Jessop went to sea as a stewardess on an ocean liner in 1908.
		Violet went into service on a ship not because of the glamour of the work, but because it was a job that required little education.
		Violet, who lived from 1887 to 1971, completed this manuscript in 1934, probably for some contest that she apparently did not win.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /biography.html (4037 words)

	Violets
		Violets that aren’t purple; there are a gazillion of ‘em!
		Violets are a wonderful, fragrant early spring bloomer.
		Alice Dunbar Nelson's Poem, "Violet" serves as a background for a discussion of the difficulty to return to the normalcy in the DC area after the events of September 11th.
	www.suite101.com /reference/violets (1750 words)

	Sunday Sermons
		Violet Jessop was a stewardess who survived the Titanic sinking.
		Many years later, when she was retired and living in rural England, Miss Jessop got a telephone call at 3 a.m.
		A woman asked if she was the Violet Jessop who had brought a baby to the rescue ship.
	www.members.shaw.ca /sermon/C98/Proper2298.html (880 words)

	Titanic Survivor. The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess
		Although the Titanic disaster occupied only a small part of Violet Jessop's life, and this is reflected in the small part it plays in her memoirs, this book is one of the few I have read in one sitting, it really is that compelling.
		Although a great many of Titanic's crew had served on Olympic, Violet is famed for being on board the Britannic when she was sunk on wartime duty as a hospital ship.
		The book charts Violet's life from her birth in Argentina, through her careers on many ships, ending some time during the American period of prohibition.
	website.lineone.net /~seniab/tsmvjs.htm (147 words)

	viocurse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Violet was transferred to the newly launched Titanic.
		Violet's lifeboat was also the last to be rescued by the Carpathia,
		Violet was probably the only Britannic survivor to be rescued with her
	www.bartcop.com /viocurse.htm (1198 words)

	History Teaching Book Review : Titanic Survivor: The memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess - Burnt Cakes
		Titanic Survivor: The memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess
		Violet in turn becomes a stewardess, on the Olympic then on the Titanic.
		In WW1 she becomes a VAD and is sunk again, this time off the Greek coast in the Brittanic.
	www.burntcakes.com /reviews/review_477_bk.html (210 words)

	Allt om HMHS Britannic
		Violet överlevde inte bara Titanic utan hon var också med om den våldsamma kollisionen som Olympic gjorde med skeppet Hawke 1911.
		Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters av Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John.
		Violet Jessop var sjuksköterska på både Titanic och Britannic och överlevde båda katastroferna.
	www.titanicnorden.com /skepp/britannic.html (1554 words)

	Re: Voilet Jessop -- The First Class Reception Room
		That was Violet Jessop, she sailed on the 3 Olympic class vessels.
		>> Obviously there must be supporting documentation, as >I >> understand Violet went on to live to a good age, so >> she could not be attributed to this "claim to fame" >> without backup fact.
		> > >That was Violet Jessop, she sailed on the 3 Olympic >class vessels.
	www.voy.com /1668/257.html (325 words)

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		Titanic survivor : the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters
		Violet Jessop ; introduced, edited, and annotated by John Maxtone-Graham.
		Titanic survivor : the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters / Violet Jessop ; introduced, edited, and annotated by John Maxtone-Graham.
	scotland.lib.mo.us /FullDisp?itemid=00019489 (65 words)

	Cruising Association Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop, John Maxstone Graham (ed), Sutton Publishing 1998, pp238, 0-7509-1758XX, £8.99, CA 15159
		Subtitled "The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess", this paperback recounts the life and times of a stewardess on passenger liners from 1908 to 1928.
		Born in 1887 of Irish parents who emigrated to Argentinia, the first quarter of the book describes her life there and subsequent repatriation to England, and poverty after her father dies.
	www.cruising.org.uk /reviews/r6jessop.htm (198 words)

	Women & The Sea : The Mariner's Museum
		The best stewardesses worked in first class and often earned sizable tips for their good service.
		Petite Violet Jessop, who had lost a lung to tuberculosis in her youth, sailed from 1908 to 1950.
		She served as a first-class stewardess aboard the Titanic and survived the ship's sinking on April 15, 1912.
	www.mariner.org /women/changing/traveling.htm (152 words)

	S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Particularly nice is the middle eastern theme playing while the women get a massage and their hair done as well as many other themes.
		Violet Jessop while included here is shown as an old woman stewardess, not the young 25 yr old w/artist model looks that she was in 1912.
		Chief Officer,who drowned, is accurately shown writing a letter to his sister which he did but the film shows him writing words that 1st Officer Lighttoller had written in his own account of the sinking years later.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0079836 (916 words)

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