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Violet Jessop was born in 1887 in Argentina of Irish parents As a girl she went to live in England as a young woman she went to sea in 1908 as an oceanliner stewardess Not only did she serve on the illfated maiden voyage of the Titanic but after surviving the horror of that tragedy she was serving on the Titanics sister ship the Britannic when during World War I it hit a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank