RMS Titanic

Sleepy · 20 Aug 2006 at 15:54

R124/LA420 said:
I'm a complete & utter Titanic freak, anything you wish to know, just ask.

Wasn't there a woman who was on board both the Titannic and Brittanic when they went down?

Zip · 20 Aug 2006 at 15:55

Sleepy said:
Wasn't there a woman who was on board both the Titannic and Brittanic when they went down?

Unlucky woman

Scania · 20 Aug 2006 at 16:22

Sleepy said:
Wasn't there a woman who was on board both the Titannic and Brittanic when they went down?

Yes indeed, she was a stewardess.

Violet Jessop was her name, she served aboard all 3 Olympic class liners.
Mrs Jessop was aboard one of the lifeboats sucked into the propellers of the sinking "Brittanic" and escaped death by inches. Her vivid recollections from the blood-painted waters alongside the sinking giant are the best existing testimony of the horror of that November morning in the Aegean.

The rest of the book offers some fragments from the extraordinary life of a really courageous woman-including the Titanic tragedy and, life aboard the Olympic.

Titanic Survivor - The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess (Edited and annotated by John Maxtone-Graham)

Sutton Publishing Limited,1998,ISBN:0-7509-1758-X

A very good read.

Von Smallhausen · 20 Aug 2006 at 16:50

When I worked as an industrial chemist, I was a member of OCCA and I went to an annual meet at a paint manufacturers in Northumberland. The board room of the company was decked out with fittings from one of the Titanic's sister ships although it escapes me whether it was the Olympic or the Britannic. It was very interesting to look at, almost stepping back in time.

Scania · 20 Aug 2006 at 17:03

Von Smallhausen said:
When I worked as an industrial chemist, I was a member of OCCA and I went to an annual meet at a paint manufacturers in Northumberland. The board room of the company was decked out with fittings from one of the Titanic's sister ships although it escapes me whether it was the Olympic or the Britannic. It was very interesting to look at, almost stepping back in time.

Without a doubt the Olympic, the fittings of the Britannic & Titanic are still resting (and very wet!) within their respective sunken hulls.