HISTORY UNCUT THE REAL Violet Jessop Virginia Loh-Hagan
CHAPTER 1 Violet Jessop The Story You Know Everyone knows about the sinking of the Titanic The Titanic was a ship It was supposed to be unsinkable Unsinkable means not having the ability to sink But then it hit an iceberg Icebergs are big floating chunks of ice The Titanic sank There were only about 700 survivors Survivors are people who live through something bad One of the survivors was Violet Constance Jessop But she was a special survivor She lived through three disasters at sea Unlike the Titanic Jessop was unsinkable Jessop’s life is inspiring But there’s more to her story 4
There were about 2,200 people on board the Titanic 5
