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The Woman Who Survived Two Of History’s Most Famous Shipwrecks
Two identical ships, two sinkings, one survivor
There are two ways to look at life. You can either put a rosy spin on life’s events and try to find positives in otherwise negative situations, or you can wallow in misfortune. Depending on your particular flavor of worldview, you will see this story in one of two ways.
Violet Jessop is either one of the luckiest people alive or one of the unluckiest people alive.
Will you be in the camp that sees her survival as fortunate or the fact that she was in this situation at all as the peak of misfortune?
Three Unsinkable Sisters
On September 20th, 1911, the RMS Olympic collided with a military cruiser while on a routine route around the United Kingdom. The Olympic turned too quickly and caught the cruiser by surprise. The warship, also British, struck and punctured the massive hull of the Olympic. Both ships would survive the incident, but the event was harrowing.
One person that was onboard the Olympic at the time was one Violet Jessop. It would be her first encounter with a potential shipwreck, but it would in no way be her last.
