Violet Jessop\'s life is an inspiring story of survival.
A unique autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor..
But Titanic Survivor is much more.
She knew that only by her own strength of character would she survive.
By the end of her story we have a met a woman who could handle whatever life threw at her with determination and good humor.
I opened my eyes on an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again to keep it out.
To her, this disaster was even more horrifying-- Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day, my nose barely above the little lapping waves.
But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean.
For most people one sinking would be enough.
One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field.
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
