Born on 2 October 1887, near Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Violet Constance Jessop was the eldest daughter of Irish immigrants William and Katherine Jessop. She was the first of … See more

Jessop boarded 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 and sank about two hours and forty minutes after the collision. Jessop described in her memoirs how she was ordered up on … See more

Jessop returned to work for White Star Line in 1920, before joining Red Star Line and then Royal Mail Line again. In her time with Red Star, Jessop went on two cruises around the … See more

In the 1958 film A Night To Remember, a scene depicts naval architect Thomas Andrews (played by Michael Goodliffe) instructing a … See more

In 1911, Jessop began working as a stewardess for the White Star liner RMS Olympic. Olympic was a luxury ship that was the largest civilian liner at that time. Jessop was aboard on 20 September 1911, when Olympic left from Southampton and collided with … See more

In the First World War, Jessop was a stewardess for the British Red Cross. On the morning of 21 November 1916, she was aboard the hospital ship Britannic, the younger sister ship of Olympic and Titanic, when it sank in the Aegean Sea after detonating a German See more

• Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, a British sailor who survived three consecutive sinkings in the action of 22 September 1914. See more