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Jessop is best known for having survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been aboard the eldest of the three sister ships, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911.
25 paź 2021 · A deep-diving photographer has captured haunting images of the HMHS Britannic— the Titanic’s sister ship that sank at sea in a maritime disaster 105 years ago. Rick Ayrton, 63, a retired ...
The HMHS Britannic was a White Star liner that had been converted into a hospital ship during WWI. The poor ship didn’t last more than 55 minutes until an unexplained explosion (or the curse of Violet Jessop) sank the ship killing 30 out of the 1,066 passengers.
7 lis 2023 · Violet Jessop is the only known woman in the world to have survived all three major shipping disasters of the "Titanic," the "Britannic, and the Olympic Ocean Liners. Violet's unique experiences earned her the nickname of "Miss Unsinkable.”
Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War. [3] After the First World War, the White Star Line was compensated for the loss of Britannic by the award of SS Bismarck as part of postwar reparations; she entered service as RMS Majestic. The wreck was located and explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1975.
Three years before, she had been a stewardess on the Titanic; a year before that, she had been on board the White Star liner RMS Olympic as it smashed into a Royal Navy warship. Was the 'unsinkable’ Violet Jessop the unluckiest or luckiest woman alive?
Experience the expedition as Richie Kohler and his team unravel the mystery of HMHS Britannic. With damage to only one compartment, the ship should have been able to stay afloat, and yet she sank three times as quickly as did Titanic. How was that possible? Was the hospital ship criminally torpedoed as the British press claimed, or did she ...
