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Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, its sister ship Britannic, and a third disaster, and still went back to sea.
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Mapping the Britannic shipwreck, from which a number of artifacts will be displayed at a new Greek museum. Jacques Cousteau was so fascinated by the mystery of the Britannic shipwreck that he scoured ...
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Before her death at age 83 in 1971, she found later life fame and was best known as having survived both the sinking of the HMHS Britannic and her sister ship the RMS Titanic.
At her death of age 83 in 1971, she also found later life fame and is best known as having survived both the sinking of the HMHS Britannic and her sister ship the RMS Titanic.
The Adriatic Affair: Finding the 1856 Le Lyonnais Wreck “Of the people on the ship, 114 died and only 18 survived. Those that did lived through extraordinary conditions in the North Atlantic.
It was the HMHS Britannic crash of 1916 that nearly killed Jessop, who was serving on the ship as a stewardess for the British Red Cross. After hitting a mine, the HMHS Britannic started sinking.
The Britannic took 30 lives, but 1,036 passengers and crew made it out alive, including Jessop. Her survival of three major maritime disasters—on ships built by the same company—cemented her ...
For visiting Brits, one interesting bit of history can be found in the shipwreck of the HMHS Britannic - the sister ship of the Titanic. Used as a hospital ship during World War I, it sank off Kea ...