Violet Jessop worked as a stewardess for the White Star Line, and over the course of her career, she somehow found herself aboard three of the company’s most infamous ships.

In 1911, Jessop was serving aboard the RMS Olympic when the enormous ocean liner collided with the British warship HMS Hawke near the Isle of Wight. The Olympic was badly damaged, but managed to return to port.

A year later, Jessop found herself aboard an even more famous ship.

In April 1912, she was working on the RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. As the ship began sinking, Jessop was ordered into a lifeboat. Before leaving, she was reportedly handed a baby by an officer and instructed to care for the child.

She survived the disaster.

Four years later, Jessop was working aboard the HMHS Britannic, which had been converted into a hospital ship during World War I. In 1916, the Britannic struck a mine in the Aegean Sea and began sinking rapidly. Jessop escaped the sinking ship by jumping into the water—but her ordeal wasn’t over.

She was pulled beneath the water toward the ship’s enormous propellers and struck her head against the keel. Somehow, she survived the impact and was eventually rescued.

Jessop later continued working at sea and eventually retired in England.

She lived until 1971, dying at the age of 83.