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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 ...
The true story behind the best-reviewed West End musical of all time. Operation Paul Bunyan: An American and South Korean military operation conducted over a tree. Operation Pig Bristle: A daring air force operation to transport 25 tonnes of pig bristles from Chongqing in China to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War. The bristles were ...
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
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Sam l'Insubmergible; Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Nepotopitelný Sam; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
A fact from Unsinkable Sam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 January 2008, and was viewed approximately 12,445 times (check views).The text of the entry was as follows:
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.
Thomas Andrews Jr. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.