10 Amazing Coincidences From History

The Titanic was one of three sister ships built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line, alongside RMS Britannic, and RMS Olympic. Poor Violet Jessop had the misfortune of being on both the Titanic and the Britannic when they sank, as well as aboard the Olympic when it crashed into a warship.

In 1910, Jessop started working as a stewardess on RMS Olympic. On 20 September 1911 the luxury liner left Southampton and collided with the British warship HMS Hawke. Luckily, nobody died, and the ship was returned to port before it sank.

Just under a year later, Violet boarded the RMS Titanic on 10 April 1912. She worked as a stewardess for four days before the Titanic crashed into an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. As an interesting aside, she was ordered onto lifeboat 16 and handed a baby. When Violet and the rest of the survivors were picked up by the RMS Carpathia, a woman grabbed the baby she was holding and ran off without saying a word. She never found out what became of the baby or if the woman was the child’s mother.

Two years later, the First World War began, and Violet served as a stewardess for the British Red Cross on the Britannic, which had been converted into a hospital ship. An unexplained explosion caused the ship to sink in the Aegean Sea. 30 people died. Once more, Violet Jessop amazingly survived.

Undeterred by these events Violet returned to the White Star Line in 1920. Talk about commitment to the cause. 'Miss. Unsinkable' died peacefully at the age of 83 in 1971.