There were no fatalities, and despite damage sustained by the impact, the ship made it back to port without sinking.Īfter experiencing the almost-sinking of the Olympic, one would think Jessop would be turned off to transatlantic sea travel. Wikimedia Commons/ New York Times photo archive The RMS Olympic at its port in Southampton. In the fall of 1911, the Olympic left its port in Southampton and collided with a British warship, the HMS Hawke. The Olympic was a luxury ship, the largest civilian liner of its time. In 1910, after working as a stewardess with the Royal Mail Line for two years, Jessop took a job aboard the RMS Olympic. The early 1900’s were a bad time for the White Star Line, but apparently not for Violet Jessop.
What might be a surprise is that she also survived the collisions and sinking’s of the Titanic’s two sister ships, the RMS Olympic and the HMHS Brittanic. So it should come as no shock that she also survived the most famous ocean disaster of all time, the sinking of the RMS Titanic. When she was a child, she contracted tuberculosis and though doctors predicted her illness would be fatal, she survived it.
Of her parents nine children, only six of them survived infancy, Violet being the first. Boylo/ Wikimedia Commons Violet Jessop, dressed in a British Red Cross nurse’s outfit.įrom the moment Violet Jessop was born, it was clear that she was a survivor.
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