Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. 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 sib
This is the paperbound reprint of a 1997 book. Jessop, an ocean liner stewardess and nurse, survived two famous maritime disasters. Here she spins true tales of wartime, fellow stewards, impossible p