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Lucky Violet Jessop(1887- who survived three shipping disasters on the Britannic,the Olympic and the Titanic was born on October 2,19887,near Bahia Blanca,Argentina.Violet Constance Jessop was the oldest daughter of Irish immigrants William and Katherine Jessop.She was the first of nine children,six of whom survived.Jessop spent much of her childhood caring for her younger siblings.She became very ill as a child with what is presumed to have been tuberculosis,which she survived despite doctors' predictions that her illness would be fatal.When Jessop was 16 years old,her father died due to complications from surgery and her family moved to England.Jessop often winkingly called 'Miss Unsinkable'died of congestive heart failure in 1971 at the age of 83.