Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents. As a girl, she went to live in England; as a young woman, she "went to sea" (in 1908) as an ocean-liner stewardess. Not only did she serve on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, but after surviving the horror of that tragedy, she was serving on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when, during World War I, it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea & sank. Jessop reentered service after the war & died in 1971, leaving behind this manuscript, which has been informatively annotated by editor John Maxtone-Graham. Readers of this absorbing account of her untrammeled life will agree that "ostensibly unsinkable in life, she has proved positively unsinkable posthumously.
Author: Jessop, Violet
Book format: hardback
Product code: 60.42.725
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