Violet Jessop

Violet Constance Jessop, known as Miss Unsinkable, was an Argentine-born Irish ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during the First World War. Born near Bahía Blanca on 2 October 1887 to Irish immigrant parents, she moved to England as a teenager and followed her mother into work as a stewardess. She served on RMS Olympic during its 1911 collision with HMS Hawke, survived the sinking of Titanic in 1912, and as a nurse was aboard the hospital ship Britannic when it was sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea on 21 November 1916, surviving a head injury. She returned to sea after the war and retired in 1950, dying of congestive heart failure in 1971 at the age of 83.