Violet Jessop\'s life is an inspiring story of survival. "One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in.
Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC.
Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day.
Violet Jessop\'s life is an inspiring story of survival