The Unsinkable Violet Jessop

Violet Jessop was a stewardess for the White Star Line, and she was aboard for three of its worst days at sea. In 1911, the Olympic collided with a British warship. In 1912, she watched the Titanic go down from Lifeboat 16, holding a stranger's baby. In 1916, as a wartime nurse, she survived the sinking of the hospital ship Britannic by jumping from a lifeboat being dragged toward the propellers. In this episode, we meet the working woman behind the "Miss Unsinkable" legend — the toothbrush she refused to leave behind, a mysterious phone call years later, and the thirty more years she spent at sea.

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