![]() ![]() This is where her soon-to-be title of Queen of Sinking Ships began. Her first ship incident with White Star Liner Company was the RMS Olympic, which was a luxury ship and the largest passenger liner in the world pre-World War I, and where Violet served as a stewardess. At the age of 21, Violet would get her first stewardess position with the Royal Mail Line in 1908 before joining the White Star Liner Company in 1911. In her mid-teens, Violet’s father died from surgical complications, and her mother moved the family to England, where Violet would attend school before following in her mother’s footsteps to become a stewardess. As a young child, Violet contracted tuberculosis, and through a stroke of sheer luck, she survived, despite the doctor’s assumption that her illness would be fatal as most cases of tuberculosis are. ![]() ![]() Born in Argentina on October 2, 1887, to Irish immigrants William and Katherine Jessop Violet was the first of nine children, one of six to survive. ![]()
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