The Only Woman Who Went Down with the Titanic and Survived

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Did you know there was a woman who went down with the Titanic and lived to tell the tale? Her name was Violet Jessop, and she was a stewardess on the ship. When the Titanic hit the iceberg, she helped passengers get to lifeboats but ended up in the freezing water when her lifeboat got sucked under. Amazingly, she was pulled back to safety and survived with only a knock on her head. Here’s the wild part: Violet also survived two other ship disasters, including the Britannic sinking during World War I. People started calling her “Miss Unsinkable” because nothing could keep her down! 🛳️

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00:00We've heard so much information about this terrible tragedy that happened on the night

00:06of April 14, 1912. What really caused the disaster? Could the Titanic passengers have

00:12been saved? Was the ship cursed? All these questions still remain unanswered. So this

00:19time, let's not focus on the tragic side of the event, but on the fantastic stories of

00:24people who miraculously managed to survive that day and what happened to them in the

00:29future. As you know, when Titanic crashed into the iceberg, the ship's crew first evacuated

00:36the women and children. But among the passengers, one woman remained on the sunken vessel and

00:42survived after it went underwater. Her name was Rhoda Abbott. She and her two sons lived

00:48in England and had been living there for two years before they decided to return home to

00:53Providence, Rhode Island. Rhoda bought three third-class tickets for the most modern and

00:58unsinkable ship of that time. The whole family slept in their cabin on that ominous night

01:03from April 14 to 15. They didn't feel the jolt and got up only after the steward knocked on

01:10the door. He asked them to wear life jackets and go to the upper deck. Then, along with

01:15other third-class passengers, they waited in line to board the lifeboats. The crew members

01:21allowed only women and little kids to go further. Still, the brothers negotiated with the team

01:27and walked their mother to the lifeboat. All three went to the last lifeboat, but the crew

01:32asked the sons to leave since not all the women had been evacuated. Rhoda didn't want to leave her

01:39sons, so she decided to stay with them. She left the boat and hugged the boys. By this time,

01:45the ship was sinking into a stern-up position. The deck tilted. Rhoda tried to hold her sons but

01:52couldn't. She slapped off the deck and fell into the icy water. From there, she swam to the lifeboat

01:58that was washed away from the deck. Rhoda climbed aboard and watched the Titanic go under the water.

02:05Unfortunately, she was unable to save her two sons. Besides her, there were 13 people in the boat.

02:12But in the end, no one except Rhoda survived. A few hours later, the ship Carpathia arrived and found a

02:19nearly frozen Rhoda in the boat. The vessel arrived almost three days later in New York,

02:25where Rhoda was hospitalized, and she lay there for about two weeks. Swimming in cold water caused

02:32her asthma, which remained with her for life. Later, she admitted that she hadn't regretted that she had

02:38refused to evacuate with other women because she got a little extra time to spend with her sons that night.

02:44Another survivor of Titanic was Violet Jessup. She boarded the ship not as a passenger but as a

02:53working staff. She was hired by the White Star Line, which was looking for people to serve wealthy

02:58clients on the new luxury liner. And on April 10th, after an interview, Violet boarded the Titanic.

03:05The first days of work went as usual, but then the ship crashed into an iceberg.

03:10In the beginning, no one panicked and didn't even want to believe that the unsinkable boat could go

03:16down. But while the people on the upper deck were having these conversations, water flooded the

03:22ship's hold. Violet, along with other stewards, helped people evacuate. One of the ship's commanders

03:28ordered Violet to get into the boat first to show everyone else it was safe. She obeyed and spent

03:35several hours there until rescuers came for the survivors. But the most exciting thing in this

03:41story was that before the Titanic, Violet had already been in another shipwreck. The ship where

03:47she worked as a steward collided with another vessel at sea. All the people were saved and Violet got a

03:54job on the Titanic a few years later. But even after the famous shipwreck, she didn't change her

04:00profession and went to the Britannic floating hospital. And you know what? It also sank.

04:07Violet managed to survive for the third time, but this didn't scare the girl. After all these events,

04:14she continued her work on other ships. She survived three shipwrecks and got a name for this,

04:20Miss Unsinkable. One of the bravest passengers of the Titanic was the ship's chief baker, Charles

04:27Jogan. On the night of April 14th, he woke up after the collision with the iceberg. During the

04:33few hours as the ship was sinking underwater, Charles helped the passengers. First, he ordered

04:39his bakers to supply all rescue boats with food, then helped the crew evacuate the passengers. He was

04:46one of the last people left on the ship when all rescue boats were on the water. But still, he continued

04:52to save people's lives. Charles started to throw deck chairs overboard so people could hold onto them.

04:58Then, when half of the Titanic went down, he lowered into the icy water, where he noticed a capsized

05:04rescue boat. Charles boarded it and waited a few hours until rescuers appeared. And the most

05:11incredible thing is that he was completely fine when the Carpathia arrived and found him.

05:16He had not even a scratch and wasn't at all hypothermic. Among the Titanic's surviving passengers

05:24was Margaret Brown, known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. She was visiting a friend in England with

05:31her daughter. But when Margaret found out her grandson was ill, she immediately bought a ticket

05:36to New York on board the Titanic. After colliding with the iceberg, Margaret bravely helped people

05:43evacuate until the stewards forced her to get into a boat. She continued to help other passengers until

05:49they were rescued by the Carpathia. Margaret created a Survivors Committee and raised about $10,000.

05:56At that time, it was quite a lot of money. For many years, she protected and supported the Titanic's

06:02passengers, who were in poor financial condition. Margaret also helped to build the Titanic Memorial in

06:08Washington. A wealthy English businessman, J. Bruce Ismay, was on board the Titanic, and the shipwreck was

06:18not the only disaster for him. He managed to jump into the last boat 20 minutes before Titanic was

06:24completely submerged. Thus, he saved his life but condemned himself to eternal contempt. When he was on the

06:32mainland, the newspapers began to write about him as the main coward of the Titanic. Also, some articles

06:40accused him of sinking the ship. Ismay was a White Star Line company director that created the ship.

06:47And according to newspaper articles, the businessman asked the captain to sail faster. He wanted the ship

06:53to arrive in America ahead of schedule and receive good reviews in the press. As a result, the ship crashed

07:00into the iceberg at high speed and damaged the hull. Nobody proved the businessman's guilt. Almost all of

07:08the criticism of Bruce Ismay was concentrated in one newspaper. Its publisher had a fight with the

07:14businessman before the tragedy, so they decided to destroy his reputation. Britain organized an independent

07:22investigation, which concluded that Ismay did nothing wrong. Yeah, he jumped into the last boat, but only

07:29after all the women and children were evacuated. However, the investigation didn't help to clear his

07:35reputation. In England and America, many friends and colleagues turned away from him. For many years,

07:42Ismay compensated the families who lost someone on the Titanic.

07:49The most famous passengers of the Titanic were an orchestra of eight musicians. In the beginning,

07:56there was no panic when the ship collided with the iceberg. Many refused to get into the boats,

08:01as it seemed to them that it was safer on the Titanic. Others were sure the breakdown on the ship would

08:07soon be repaired. Some people didn't believe the ship could sink. A minor panic began when everyone

08:14realized a catastrophe was imminent. To calm the people down a bit, the eight musicians from two ensembles

08:21started playing music. Survivors said the orchestra played until the very end.

08:27Fear for their lives and the nearness of the end didn't confuse the valiant men. Unfortunately,

08:33they didn't survive. But a memory about them was written in history forever. And their musical

08:39instruments became world-famous artifacts and very valuable items at auctions.

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