Violet Jessop was a rare career woman at the turn-of-the-century, working as a cabin maid on luxury steamship liners crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Before her death at age 83 in 1971, she found fame ...

Violet Jessop, a stewardess and nurse, was 25 when the Titanic went down and managed to get in a lifeboat in time. She then went to work on the Britannica, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1916.