Hi everyone, here is the Unsinkable Sam, he was a remarkable cat who managed to survive three shipwrecks during the Second World War. The first sinking ship that Sam (then known as Oskar) managed to survive was the Bismarck, downed in a sea-battle on May 27, 1941: Sam lived while over 2,000 crew died. He was the only survivor picked by the British battleship the HMS Cossack, and was coincidentally renamed Oscar. The Cossack was in turn damaged by a German torpedo later that year. As it was being towed to safety, an explosion ripped through the ship, killing 159 men. Oscar survived and was brought to shore at Gibraltar. By now called Unsinkable Sam (luckily, cats don’t care what their name is,) he was brought to live on the HMS Ark Royal, which had been involved in the original fight with the Bismarck. It too was torpedoed, and all but one crew member was saved. Sam was found “ angry but quite unharmed,” floating on a plank. Thankfully, Sam stayed away from ships after that, and he eventually died in a seaman’s home in Belfast in 1955
The most traveled cat is Hamlet, who escaped from his carrier while on a flight. He hid for seven weeks behind a panel on the airplane. By the time he was discovered, he had traveled nearly 373,000 miles (600,000 km).