After the Titanic sank, Violet was in the life boat holding a baby all
night. When she got on board the Carpathia the mother took the baby
from her, and never even thanked her. Years after her retirement, she
got a telephone call from a woman claiming to be the baby she saved.
Her friend, and biographer John Maxtone-Graham said it was most likely
some children in the village playing a joke on her. She replied "No
John, I had never told that story to anyone before I told you now." To
this day, the baby she saved has never been positively
identified.
