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Now nicknamed "Unsinkable Sam", the cat was soon transferred to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, which coincidentally had been instrumental in the destruction of Bismarck (along with Cossack). However, Sam was to find no better luck there, and when returning from Malta on 14 November 1941, the ship was torpedoed, this time by U-81 .
Catarina, Edgar Allan Poe's pet cat and the inspiration for his story "The Black Cat". [citation needed] Cleo (1982 - c. 2006), a black cat owned by author Helen Brown and her son Sam. Cleo featured in Brown’s 2010 bestselling novel Cleo. Dewey Readmore Books, the library cat from Spencer, Iowa. Born Nov 1987; abandoned at the Library in ...
Unsinkable Sam, a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II Unsinkable Seven , a nickname given to the seven drivers who managed to survive to finish the East African Safari Rally Unsinkable aircraft carrier , a term used to refer to a geographically or politically important island
Unsinkable Sam portrait.jpg. Licensing. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the ...
When the "unsinkable" Titanic sank and claimed more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912, it made newspaper headlines around the world. It was a nightmarish tragedy that shocked humanity's psyche.
Notable examples include Cordwainer Smith's 1955 short story "The Game of Rat and Dragon" [44] and Andre Norton's 1968 novel The Zero Stone [45] featuring a telepathic mutant feline named Eet. [46] Robert A. Heinlein ' s The Cat Who Walks Through Walls features a cat named Pixel who travels on various space adventures with the narrator. [47]
The real-life hijacking at the center of the Netflix streaming series "The Hijacking of Flight 601" is a strange saga involving multiple countries. ... the story is being told in a new Netflix ...
Officers and men of the 135th Aero Squadron with their mascot Rin Tin Tin shortly after his rescue as a puppy in 1918. Following advances made by American forces during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Corporal Lee Duncan, an armourer of the U.S. Army Air Service, was sent forward on September 15, 1918, to the small French village of Flirey to see if it would make a suitable flying field for his ...