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! 🛳️ Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: The Titanic Memorial: By JStephanMease, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72792865 RMS Olympic matchbox: By Historia, arqueología, y barcos, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108813602 Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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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.
00:09What really caused the disaster?
00:11Could the Titanic passengers have been saved?
00:14Was the ship cursed?
00:15All these questions still remain unanswered.
00:18So this time, let's not focus on the tragic side of the event, but on the fantastic stories
00:24of people who miraculously managed to survive that day, and what happened to them in the
00:29future.
00:31As you know, when Titanic crashed into the iceberg, the ship's crew first evacuated
00:36the women and children.
00:38But among the passengers, one woman remained on the sunken vessel and survived after it
00:43went underwater.
00:44Her name was Rhoda Abbott.
00:47She and her two sons lived in England and had been living there for two years before
00:51they decided to return home to Providence, Rhode Island.
00:55Rhoda bought three third-class tickets for the most modern and unsinkable ship of that
01:00time.
01:01The whole family slept in their cabin on that ominous night from April 14 to 15.
01:06They didn't feel the jolt and got up only after the steward knocked on the door.
01:11He asked them to wear life jackets and go to the upper deck.
01:15Then along with other third-class passengers, they waited in line to board the lifeboats.
01:21The crew members allowed only women and little kids to go further.
01:24Still, the brothers negotiated with the team and walked their mother to the lifeboat.
01:30All three went to the last lifeboat, but the crew asked the sons to leave since not all
01:35the women had been evacuated.
01:37Rhoda didn't want to leave her sons, so she decided to stay with them.
01:42She left the boat and hugged the boys.
01:44By this time, the ship was sinking into a stern up position.
01:49The deck tilted.
01:50Rhoda tried to hold her sons but couldn't.
01:53She slapped off the deck and fell into the icy water.
01:56From there, she swam to the lifeboat that was washed away from the deck.
02:01Rhoda climbed aboard and watched the Titanic go under the water.
02:05Unfortunately, she was unable to save her two sons.
02:09Besides her, there were 13 people in the boat.
02:12But in the end, no one except Rhoda survived.
02:16A few hours later, the ship Carpathia arrived and found a nearly frozen Rhoda in the boat.
02:22The vessel arrived almost three days later in New York, where Rhoda was hospitalized,
02:28and she lay there for about two weeks.
02:30Swimming in cold water caused her asthma, which remained with her for life.
02:35Later, she admitted that she hadn't regretted that she had refused to evacuate with other
02:39women because she got a little extra time to spend with her sons that night.
02:46Another survivor of Titanic was Violet Jessop.
02:50She boarded the ship not as a passenger, but as a working staff.
02:54She was hired by the White Star Line, which was looking for people to serve wealthy clients
02:59on the new luxury liner.
03:01And on April 10, after an interview, Violet boarded the Titanic.
03:06The first days of work went as usual, but then the ship crashed into an iceberg.
03:11In the beginning, no one panicked and didn't even want to believe that the unsinkable boat
03:16could go down.
03:17But while the people on the upper deck were having these conversations, water flooded
03:22the ship's hull.
03:23Violet, along with other stewards, helped people evacuate.
03:27One of the ship's commanders ordered Violet to get into the boat first to show everyone
03:32else it was safe.
03:34She obeyed and spent several hours there until rescuers came for the survivors.
03:39But the most exciting thing in this story was that before the Titanic, Violet had already
03:44been in another shipwreck.
03:47The ship where she worked as a steward collided with another vessel at sea.
03:52All the people were saved, and Violet got a job on the Titanic a few years later.
03:57But even after the famous shipwreck, she didn't change her profession and went to the Britannic
04:02Floating Hospital.
04:04And you know what?
04:05It also sank.
04:07Violet managed to survive for the third time, but this didn't scare the girl.
04:12After all these events, she continued her work on other ships.
04:16She survived three shipwrecks and got a name for this – Miss Unsinkable.
04:22One of the bravest passengers of the Titanic was the ship's chief baker, Charles Jogan.
04:29On the night of April 14, he woke up after the collision with the iceberg.
04:33During the few hours as the ship was sinking underwater, Charles helped the passengers.
04:39First he ordered his bakers to supply all rescue boats with food, then helped the crew
04:43evacuate the passengers.
04:45He was one of the last people left on the ship when all rescue boats were on the water.
04:50But still, he continued to save people's lives.
04:54Charles started to throw deck chairs overboard so people could hold onto them.
04:59Then, when half of the Titanic went down, he lowered into the icy water, where he noticed
05:04a capsized rescue boat.
05:06Charles boarded it and waited a few hours until rescuers appeared.
05:10And the most incredible thing is that he was completely fine when the Carpathia arrived
05:15and found him.
05:16He had not even a scratch and wasn't at all hypothermic.
05:22Among the Titanic's surviving passengers was Margaret Brown, known as the Unsinkable
05:27Molly Brown.
05:29She was visiting a friend in England with her daughter.
05:32But when Margaret found out her grandson was ill, she immediately bought a ticket to New
05:36York on board the Titanic.
05:39After colliding with the iceberg, Margaret bravely helped people evacuate until the stewards
05:44forced her to get into a boat.
05:47She continued to help other passengers until they were rescued by the Carpathia.
05:52Margaret created a survivors committee and raised about $10,000.
05:57At that time, it was quite a lot of money.
05:59For many years, she protected and supported the Titanic's passengers, who were in poor
06:04financial condition.
06:06Margaret also helped to build the Titanic Memorial in Washington.
06:11A wealthy English businessman, J. Bruce Ismay, was on board the Titanic, and the shipwreck
06:18was not the only disaster for him.
06:20He managed to jump into the last boat 20 minutes before Titanic was completely submerged.
06:26Thus, he saved his life but condemned himself to eternal contempt.
06:32When he was on the mainland, the newspapers began to write about him as the main coward
06:37of the Titanic.
06:38Also, some articles accused him of sinking the ship.
06:43Ismay 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.
06:52He wanted the ship to arrive in America ahead of schedule and receive good reviews in the
06:57press.
06:59As a result, the ship crashed into the iceberg at high speed and damaged the hull.
07:04Nobody proved the businessman's guilt.
07:07Almost all of the criticism of Bruce Ismay was concentrated in one newspaper.
07:13Its publisher had a fight with the businessman before the tragedy, so they decided to destroy
07:18his reputation.
07:21Britain organized an independent investigation, which concluded that Ismay did nothing wrong.
07:26Yeah, he jumped into the last boat, but only after all the women and children were evacuated.
07:32However, the investigation didn't help to clear his reputation.
07:37In England and America, many friends and colleagues turned away from him.
07:42For many years, Ismay compensated the families who lost someone on the Titanic.
07:50The most famous passengers of the Titanic were an orchestra of 8 musicians.
07:55In the beginning, there was no panic when the ship collided with the iceberg.
07:59Many refused to get into the boats, as it seemed to them that it was safer on the Titanic.
08:05Others were sure the breakdown on the ship would soon be repaired.
08:09Some people didn't believe the ship could sink.
08:12A minor panic began when everyone realized a catastrophe was imminent.
08:17To calm the people down a bit, the 8 musicians from 2 ensembles started playing music.
08:24Survivors 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.
08:32Unfortunately, they didn't survive.
08:35But a memory about them was written in history forever, and their musical instruments became
08:41world-famous artifacts and very valuable items at auctions.
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