Animals aboard the Titanic
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There were many animals aboard Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
They included dogs, cats, chickens, other birds and an unknown number of rats. Three of the twelve dogs on Titanic survived.
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The ship had her own official cat named Jenny, who was kept aboard Titanic as a mascot and also worked to reduce the rat and mice population. Transferred over from Titanic's sister ship Olympic, Jenny gave birth in the week before Titanic sailed from Southampton. She normally lived in the galley, where the victualling staff fed her and her kittens on scraps from the kitchens. Stewardess Violet Jessop wrote that the cat "laid her family near Jim, the scullion, whose approval she always sought and who always gave her warm devotion".
A number of dogs were brought aboard by passengers as pets. Most were kept in kennels on the ship's boat deck, though some First Class passengers kept theirs in their cabins – probably without the knowledge of the crew or with the turning of a blind eye, as they were not supposed to do so. The ship's carpenter, John Hutchison, was responsible for the dogs' welfare.
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