There are 2,208 passenger and crew member stories. One of the greatest is about a young Irish girl named Violet Jessop, a 24-year-old stewardess and one of only 23 female crew members aboard ship. "Her father emigrated from Dublin in the mid-1880s to try his hand at sheep farming in the Argentine," writes John Maxtone-Graham in his introduction to Violet Jessop's memoir, Titanic Survivor.

William Jessop's fiancée, Katherine Kelly, followed him there from Dublin. They married shortly after her arrival, and their first child, Violet, was born October 2, 1887. The family left Buenos Aires for Britain after William's death, but Violet still hankered to see the world and took a job as a stewardess with the White Star Line. Her unique claim to fame is that she served on all three sister ships: Olympic, Titanic and Britiannic.

First Class passenger Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon would later recall her as the "merry Irish stewardess with her soft Irish brogue and tales of timid ladies she had attended during hundreds of Atlantic crossings."