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Miss Unsinkable: The Stewardess Who Walked Away From the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Sea Itself

Raymond on August 2, 2026

A woman in a dark coat standing alone at the rail of an ocean liner looking out to sea

Violet Jessop was aboard the Olympic when it was rammed, on the Titanic when it hit the iceberg, and on the Britannic when it struck a mine and sank in the Aegean. Three times the sea tried to take her. Three times she walked away — the quiet stewardess history nearly forgot.

“We Are Holding Our Own”: The Last Voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Raymond on July 24, 2026

A large ore freighter battling towering waves in a dark storm on a Great Lake, rendered in sumi-e ink wash

On a storm-lashed November night in 1975, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes vanished from radar without a single distress call, taking all 29 men aboard. This is the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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