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Violet Jessop, the unsinkable stewardess
She was aboard the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic. All three ended badly. She did not.
Violet Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and later a nurse. In 1911 she was aboard RMS Olympic when it collided with the cruiser HMS Hawke. The ship stayed afloat and made port.
In April 1912 she was aboard the Titanic. She was ordered into lifeboat 16, and later wrote about being handed a baby as she boarded, a child she held all night and gave up to a woman on the rescue ship.
In 1916 she was a nurse aboard HMHS Britannic when it struck a mine in the Aegean. Her lifeboat was pulled towards the still-turning propellers; she jumped, was struck on the head, and survived. She said years later that she owed her life to her thick hair cushioning the blow.
She went back to sea afterwards and worked on liners for another thirty-odd years. She died in 1971, aged 83, of heart failure, on land.