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TIL Violet Constance Jessop was a women who not only survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 but also survived the sinking of Titanic’s sister ship the Britannic in 1916, but not before surviving a collision the eldest of the three sister ships the RMS Olympic had with HMS Hawke in 1911.

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