Violet’s Titanic Escape: Jane Glennie

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Violet’s Titanic Escape: Jane Glennie

6th November 2024 at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Jane Glennie

Actor, Jane Glennie will become RMS Titanic Stewardess, Violet Jessop describing her adventures on both RMS Titanic and the RMS Britannic, based on her memories published in the book Titanic Survivor (2007) by John Maxtone-Graham. Violet gives us her eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. You will hear how after helping women and children into the lifeboats, she was ordered into Lifeboat 16. As the lifeboat was being lowered, one of the Titanic officers gave her a parcel to look after – she was surprised when she found herself holding a baby. She describes how she watched, fascinated as the ship went down “as if by looking I could keep her a float.” But, just how unlucky can a young woman get, when a few years later in 1916 after training as a nurse, she was sailing on the RMS Britannic when the ship hit a mine and began to sink!

This is a performance that you will find hard to forget.

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Date:
6th November 2024
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm