Violet Jessop served as a nurse and stewardess aboard three sister ships of the famed White Star Line: Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. All three vessels suffered disasters at sea
docked for repairs, Jessop transferred to its sister ship, R.M.S.. Less than seven months later, on April 14, 1912, the elegant liner was four days into its maiden voyage when it struck on iceberg and sank. More than 1,500 passengers and crew perished.
At 11:40 p.m. on that dreadful night, Jessop had just finished her prayers and was in her berth when she heard a “low, rending, crunching, ripping sound.” At first, she assumed it was a drill. After all, the “unsinkable”couldn’t possibly be in danger of going down. But less than three hours later Jessop was adrift in a lifeboat watching in horror as the grand ship disappeared beneath the dark, frigid North Atlantic. “Surely it is all a dream,” she remembered thinking.
Jessop jumped into the sea and escaped death but suffered a severe skull fracture and deeply gashed leg. Later, aboard a British destroyer, she saw a pair of familiar faces: two doctors beside whom she had knelt at Mass early that morning. “I know what saved you today, young lady,” said one. Jessop spent the next three years recovering from her injuries, during which time the war ended and ocean liners resumed crossing the Atlantic. After surviving three disasters at sea, another person might have been concerned about running out of luck. Not Jessop. In 1920 she signed on once more with the restoredand continued working as a stewardess until her retirement in 1950 at the age of 63. She died in England in 1971, age 83.
What gave her the grit to overcome whatever life hurled at her? “Just the will to live,” she once told a friend. “And a huge chunk of faith in divine intervention.”
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