A Career at Sea
Those “other plans” included the most famous ship disasters of all time. At the ripe age of 23 years old, Violet decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and begin a career at sea. She got a job as a stewardess with the famed White Star Line. Violet boarded the RMS Olympic in 1910, and everything was going fine until the Olympic crashed into a British warship called the HMS Hawke.
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Thankfully, neither ship sunk. Both made it to port safely before anything really disastrous took place. Still, it was a scary experience, and I would completely understand if Violet decided to never set foot on a boat again, let alone continue to work on one.