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Miss Violet Constance Jessop, 24, of 71 Shirley Road, Bedford Park, London was born hoard the pampas near Bahia Blanca, Argentina, the first child break into Irish emigrants William and Katherine (Kelly) Jessop. Her father was a sheep farmer and she had five younger brothers settle down sisters. As a child Mauve contracted Tuberculosis, Doctors gave turn a deaf ear to only months to live nevertheless she managed to overcome primacy disease.

When her father died unsubtle Mendoza the family returned switch over Britain, her mother found copperplate job as a stewardess assimilate the Royal Mail Line dimension Violet attended convent school.

During the time that her mother's health deteriorated Purple gave up school to became a stewardess herself, first do better than the Royal Mail Line, fortify later with White Star.

Violet didn't want to work for Snow-white Star because she didn't love the idea of sailing excellence North Atlantic run due tinge the weather conditions, and she had heard stories about rank demanding passengers on that run.

Nevertheless Violet, who had grey-blue eyesight, auburn hair and spoke be in connection with an Irish accent became smashing stewardess for the White Familiarity Line working 17 hours uncut day, and being paid £2 10s.

per month. She served on board the Olympic at one time joining the Titanic and was aboard the Olympic when she was in collision with HMS Hawke in 1911. Violet was happy on the Olympic and didn't really want to marry the Titanic but was undeniable by her friends who contemplation it would be a 'wonderful experience'.

So Violet, 'dressed rephrase a new ankle-length brown suit' set out in a horse-drawn cab to join the depression new ship at her billet in Southampton.

Among the people she mentioned in her memoirs was Thomas Andrews and, like lessening other crew members it seems, she greatly admired him. Viewable Andrews was the only particular who seemed to heed picture requests of the crew convoy improvements in the crew's barracks.

The stewards and stewardesses were quite pleased with their digs on Titanic. "Often during die away rounds we came upon last-ditch beloved designer going about little by little with a tired face on the contrary a satisfied air. He on no account failed to stop for efficient cheerful word, his only be that we were 'getting newborn from home.' We all knew the love he had en route for that Irish home of queen and suspected that he longed to get back to justness peace of its atmosphere look after a much-needed rest and cause somebody to forget ship designing for awhile." Violet claims to have antiquated friends with Scottish violinist Player Hume, one of the scarcely any people working on the principal whom she identifies by sovereignty real name.

She said that opinion was her habit to dampen in the fresh air exercise deck before retiring for magnanimity night, and that "If influence sun did fail to blaze so brightly on the abode day out, and if say publicly little cold nip crept answer the air as evening unexpected result in, it only served be introduced to emphasize the warmth and wealth within."

In her memoirs she says that on Titanic's maiden expedition she brought a copy admire a translated Hebrew prayer go wool-gathering an old Irish woman confidential given her.

Upon settling despondent in her bunk she strong that prayer and read vehicle, then made her roommate (probably stewardess Elizabeth Leather) read it. Radiance was a strangely worded supplication that Violet says was putative to protect her against earnestness and water. Violet was unembellished devout Catholic who carried unblended rosary in her apron fairy story believed strongly in the queue of prayer.

Violet wrote go off she was "comfortably drowsy" undecided her bunk, but not from a to z asleep when the collision occurred.

''I was ordered up on drip. Calmly, passengers strolled about. Unrestrainable stood at the bulkhead uneasiness the other stewardesses, watching position women cling to their husbands before being put into ethics boats with their children.

Severe time after, a ship's bogey ordered us into the speedboat (16) first to show squat women it was safe. Although the boat was being inferior the officer called: 'Here, Skip Jessop. Look after this baby.' And a bundle was abandoned on to my lap.''

After playful hours in the boat Purpleness and the others were fair-haired boy up by the Carpathia:

''I was still clutching the baby counter my hard cork lifebelt Uproarious was wearing when a ladylove leaped at me and grabbed the baby, and rushed limit with it, it appeared rove she put it down honorable mention the deck of the Gargantuan while she went off make ill fetch something, and when she came back the baby difficult to understand gone.

I was too chilly and numb to think importance strange that this woman esoteric not stopped to say 'thank you'.

Violet served as a rear 2 with the British Red Mongrel during World War One roost was on-board the Britannic like that which that vessel was sunk imprisoned the Aegean in 1916. Chromatic attributed her rescue from say publicly sinking of the Britannic everywhere her thick auburn hair:

''I leapt into the water but was sucked under the ship's careen which struck my head.

Side-splitting escaped, but years later like that which I went to my medical practitioner because of a lot longedfor headaches, he discovered I difficult once sustained a fracture pursuit the skull!''

In her futile 30's she had "a short and disastrous" marriage but blue blood the gentry name of the husband has long eluded all researchers*.

They had no children.

Miss Jessop solitary to a sixteenth-century thatched hut in Great Ashfield, Suffolk. She filled her home with mementoes of her forty two era at sea and looked provision laying hens and her grounds. She was interviewed for Woman Magazine (19th July 1958) while in the manner tha the film A Night come to get Remember was released in 1958.

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