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Violet Jessop

The Unsinkable Violet Jessop | Stuff You Missed in History Class: The Podcast
We love to talk about shipwrecks, but Violet Jessop was a shipwreck survivor — several times over. She traveled the world aboard some of the most famous ocean liners of all time.

Good lord, this woman had some stories.

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