Inventory. The ship had her own official cat named Jenny, who was kept aboard the Titanic as a mascot and also worked to keep down the ship's population of rats and mice.
Titanic's resident feline, who joined the ship while it was still in Belfast, didn't receive the same first-class treatment as the canine passengers that boarded the ocean liner with their owners. Jenny was a ship cat, meaning she was allowed to roam the decks freely and help keep the rat population under control.
While reading Charles Pellegrino's Ghosts of the Titanic, I came across the following intriguing footnote: “Only one cat is known to have been aboard the Titanic, and she is said to have disembarked before the ship left Southampton…
Jenny and her kittens' fate is unknown. Some believe she went down with the ship, while some have witnessed her carrying her kittens off the ship in Southampton. Rumor has it that Jenny's unofficial caretaker Jim saw her leaving the ship with her kittens and saw it as an omen.
They were the forgotten victims of the Titanic: the pet animals locked up and helpless as the doomed passenger liner sank. Around 12 dogs, four hens, four roosters, 30 cockerels, one yellow canary and the ship's rat-catcher cat Jenny were on board the vessel's doomed maiden voyage.
Were there horses aboard the Titanic? That's still a mystery. Some sources say there were polo ponies aboard, and there's an unverified story about a German racehorse who had a private paddock on C deck.
It is believed that approximately 12 dogs were on board when it sank, though there may have been more. Only three dogs survived. These lap dogs could have easily been snuck onto a lifeboat and belonged to first-class passengers, who were the only ones allowed to bring their dogs onto the ship.
Three of the twelve dogs on the Titanic survived; all other animals perished.
Only first class passengers were allowed to bring dogs on the voyage and many belonged to prominent families. There were 12 confirmed dogs on board the Titanic including a Toy Poodle, a Fox Terrier, a French Bulldog and millionaire John Jacob Astor's Airedale named Kitty.
Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oskar or Oscar) is the nickname of a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships.
One of these is a species of bacteria -- named Halomonas titanicae after the great ship -- that lives inside icicle-like growths of rust, called "rusticles." These bacteria eat iron in the ship's hull and they will eventually consume the entire ship, recycling the nutrients into the ocean ecosystem.
There were 12 dogs on the ship, three of whom made it onto lifeboats and survived. The ship also housed an unknown number of cats including the ship's official mascot Jenny, as well as an unknown number of birds including chickens, cockerels, and at least one canary.
There were a number of animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. The animals included dogs, cats, chickens, birds and an unknown number of rats.
The story of the pets traveling on the Titanic is one of the lesser-known aspects of the disaster touched on in the compelling exhibition 'Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story' at the Maritime Museum. There were 12 dogs on the Titanic and kennels were situated at the base of the dummy fourth funnel.
Of the 337 bodies recovered, 119 were buried at sea. 209 were brought back to Halifax. 59 were claimed by relatives and shipped to their home communities. The remaining 150 victims are buried in three cemeteries: Fairview Lawn, Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirsch.
Yes, there are other examples including the second officer but my favourite example is of this extremely fortunate gentleman. His name was Charles Joughin and he was the Master Baker on board.
Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard.
J. Bruce Ismay, in full Joseph Bruce Ismay, (born December 12, 1862, Crosby, near Liverpool, England—died October 17, 1937, London), British businessman who was chairman of the White Star Line and who survived the sinking of the company's ship Titanic in 1912.
There were 128 children aboard the ship, 67 of which were saved. The youngest Titanic survivor was just two months old; her name was Millvina Dean (UK, b. 2 February 1912), and she wasn't even supposed to be on board, nor were her family.
The water temperature on the night of the disaster was 28°F (-2°C), which is below the freezing point of sea water. Immersion in such cold water can cause several life-threatening conditions. One of the primary risks associated with cold water immersion is hypothermia.
Titanic also carried 36,000 oranges and 16,000 lemons.
It has also been claimed a pig was present on Titanic's voyage, although this was later proven to be a musical toy pig (pictured left), belonging to passenger Edith Rosenbaum.
The Titanic was the first ship to come with a heated swimming pool. Not surprisingly, it was for the exclusive use of first-class passengers. As were the Turkish bath, squash court and dog kennel. 700 third or steerage class passengers had to share 2 bathtubs - not many for a journey lasting almost 6 days.
The Titanic had one swimming pool. It was accessible only to first-class passengers and was located inside the ship on the starboard side of F deck. There was a charge to use the pool and women and men were not allowed to bathe at the same time.