Another Titanic, Britannic Survivor: Arthur Jewel-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

While looking up stuff about Arthur John Priest, I came across this man's name.  The Wikipedia article said that besides Priest, there were two others who survived both the Titanic and Britannic's sinkings, Violet Jessup and Arthur Jewel.

And, there was one more ship he was on, the SS Donegal, a hospital ship that was sunk by a German U-boat, but this one he did not survive.

He started working for the White Star Line in 1904 at the age of 16 and was a seaman on the Oceanic for eight years.  On April 6, 1912, he was transferred to the RMS Titanic as one of six lookouts along with George Symons.  They were in the lookout station in the crows next right before the collision with the iceberg but had been relieved by Reginald Lee and Frederick Fleet.

He survived by being put in command of Lifeboat 7.

He was working on the HMHS Britannic  and survived its sinking on  21 November 1916, along with  stewardess Violet Jessup and stoke Arthur John Priest.

--DaCoot

Here Is Another Triple White Star Survivor, John Arthur Priest (Olympic, Titanic and Britannic)

From the March 23, 2021, ListVerse  "Top 10 luckiest unlucky  people whose luck nearly killed them.

The subject of the last two posts, Violet Jessup is also in this list.  But, this is a different person who also survived the Titanic and the Britannic sinkings.  And, he was on the Olympic as well.  Plus, he had two other ships sink while he was on it.  A true "unsinkable" as it were.

His name was Arthur John Priest.

Arthur John Priest worked as a stoker, or "fireman," whose job it was  to keep the boilers of a ship constantly steaming  by shoveling coal into them.    As such, they were well below the waterline and near the bottom of one of those massive triple sisters of the White Star Line.

While serving on the Olympic in 1911,  he survived when the ship was struck and holed by the HMS Hawke below the waterline, but did not sink.

The following year, he got a job on the Olympic's sister ship, the you-know-what.

--Cooter

'Miss Unsinkable' Violet Jessup-- Part 2: Survived Sinkings of Titanic and Brittanic

Then, Violet Jessup made the move to the Titanic in time for that "Unsinkable" ship's famous maiden voyage in April 1912 when it sailed for New York City across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic.  She later wrote in her memoirs of the  unforgettable night of April 14-15, when the ship hit an iceberg and san, taking some 1,500 people with her.

Jessop helped other women and children into lifeboats before climbing into one herself; one of the ship's officers placed a bundled up baby on her lap.  After eight hours on the lifeboat, a ship called the Carpathia rescued Jessop and the others, and a frantic woman (whom Jessup assumed was the baby's mother) snatched the infant from her arms.

She was also on the third of the three sisters, the Britannic.  After World War I broke out, the Britannic was requisitioned by the British government and turned into a hospital ship.  By then, Miss Jessup was a nurse working for the British Red Cross.

In November 1916, the Britannic hit a mine set by a German U-boat in the Aegean Sea.  The explosion caused significant damage and the ship sank less than an hour later, only 30 people died.  More than 1,000  were saved, including "Miss Unsinkable."

Jessup continued working on cruise ships after the war and had a 42-year career at sea before her retirement.  She died in 1971.

I Don't Think I'd Get On a Ship That This Woman Was On.  --DaCoot