"Unsinkable Sam" (also known as "Oscar") was the nickname given to a ship's cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels and surviving the sinking of all three."
We always laugh and joke about a cat having 9 lives..
He survived the Bismark German battleship. HMS Cossack British War Ship. HMS Arch Royal British War Ship.
I thought this was a great short story of a cat who outlived many seamen.
"Retirement
The loss of Ark Royal proved the end of Sam's shipborne career and he was transferred first to the offices of the Governor in Gibraltar, and then sent back to the United Kingdom, where he saw out the remainder of the war living in a seaman's home in Belfast.
Sam died in 1955.
A pastel portrait of Sam (titled "Oscar, the Bismarck's Cat") by the artist Georgina Shaw-Baker is in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. "
If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two, and KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN.
As much as it's great he survived all three sinkings, he should not have been taken aboard warships at all. Humans are the ones who create war; not animals. They should not be involved at all.