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To: Stonewall Jackson

I think it is worthy of note that sister ship Olympic turned round and headed to Titanic despite being some 6 hrs removed and almost at port IIRC. Carpathia, however, had done about all possible so Olympic’s efforts were moot.


60 posted on 01/31/2012 1:19:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Stewardess Violet Jessop had served onboard Olympic in 1911 when that ship collided with the British cruiser Hawke before transferring to Titanic the next year. She survived Titanic's sinking and continued working for White Star Lines.

A few years later, during WW1, she joined the British Red Cross as a nurse and was stationed onboard Britannic, which had been converted into a hospital ship, when she struck a mine and sank in the Aegean Sea.

She survived this sinking as well and continued to work onboard passenger liners for most of her life. She died in 1971 at age 83.

67 posted on 01/31/2012 1:42:46 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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