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Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs Of Violet Jessop, Stewardess

I did not like big ships...I was secretly afraid' admits Violet Jessop in this unique eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. Joining the Royal Mail Line in 1908 at the age of twenty-one, Violet Jessop spent her entire career at sea, travelling on more than 200 voyages. She was a stewardess for first-class passengers on the Titanic when it sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Her description of the sinking is chilling as she sees to the needs of the passengers before finding a warm coat for herself. While in the lifeboat, someone threw her a 'forgotten baby', and she watched, fascinated as the ship went down 'as if by looking I could keep her afloat'. Four years later, she was a wartime nurse aboard the hospital ship, Britannic, when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. These memoirs give us a unique glimpse of life below decks aboard one of the great ocean liners. From Jessop's unusual vantage point, we learn what life was like for those who worked on the ships: hilarious fellow stewardesses, cramped quarters, wartime alerts, impossible passengers ('the haughty, gimlet eyes of a certain well-known society woman'), philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths.

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Maxsima - White Flash Diffuser for Jessops 360 AFD, 360AFD Flash Gun, Speedlite.

DIFFUSER FOR JESSOPS FLASH.

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Goldfinder: A True Story of One Man's Discovery of the Ocean's Richest Secrets

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Haydn - Notturni & Scherzandi

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Escape

Paperback. Pub Date: Jan. 2008 Pages: 432 Publisher: Penguin In the closed world of the fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints. Carolyn Jessop was forced to obey HER Controlling husband's every Demand She had no money. No power and existed AS one of six wives battling for her husband's attention. For seventeen years Carolyn suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader. Warren Jeffs. started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home. she knew she had to do everything in her power to take her children and flee.At 35 Carolyn escaped. This is her harrowing - and ultimately triumphant - story

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Quality Jessops Memory Stick USB Card Reader

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Fila Jessop Wallet Navy

Fila Jessop Mens Wallet Navy 5 Pocket card slots 1 Note section Velcro closure Measurements 13 x 8.5cm

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Barbara Taylor Bradford: Act Of Will [DVD]

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