Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Oscar was again rescued, but it was decided at that time to transfer him to a home on land. By now known as Unsinkable Sam because of surviving the three ship sinkings, he was given a new job as shore duty mouse-catcher in the office buildings of the Governor of Gibraltar because he still had "six lives to go". [39]
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
The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941 between the German battleship Bismarck and naval and air elements of the British Royal Navy.
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.