Ship's cat
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The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times. Cats have been brought on ships for many reasons, most importantly to control rodents. V
Captain AJ Hailey with his cat on RMS Empress of Canada, 1920s
Ship's cat on HMAS Encounter during World War I
Winston Churchill pets Blackie, the ship's cat of HMS Prince of Wales, from boarding USS McDougal during a 1941 ceremonial visit
Convoy asleep in a hammock aboard HMS Hermione
Mrs Chippy
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Mrs Chippy was a male ship's cat who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
Ship's cat
…Wellman Ainsworth, the daughter of the American journalist, explorer, and aviator Walter Wellman who made the aborted ocean crossing in the airship. Mrs Chippy (actually a male) was the ship's cat aboard Endurance, the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914…
Mrs Chippy on the shoulder of crew member Perce Blackborow
Bronze sculpture of Mrs Chippy on the grave of Harry McNish in Karori Cemetery which was added by the New Zealand Antarctic Society
Close up photo of the sculpture of Mrs Chippy in Karori Cemetery