Canine survivors Three small dogs, two Pomeranians and a Pekingese, survived the Titanic disaster cradled in their owners' arms as they climbed into lifeboats. Miss Margaret Hays, aged 24, boarded Titanic at Cherbourg and was travelling home with two friends to New York with her Pomeranian called Lady.
They included dogs, cats, chickens, other birds and an unknown number of rats. Three of the twelve dogs on the Titanic survived; all other animals perished.
The ship carried at least twelve dogs, only three of which survived. First-class passengers often traveled with their pets. The Titanic was equipped with a first-rate kennel and the dogs were well-cared for, including daily exercise on deck.
There were many animals aboard the RMS Titanicduring her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912after colliding with an iceberg. [1] They included dogs,[2]cats,[3]chickens,[4]other birds and an unknown number of rats.
The cat never turned up after the ship sank into the Atlantic, and she was presumed dead. But rumors attached to Jenny put a brighter spin on her voyage.
If you remember the movie you may recall a baker drinking from a flask and hanging from a rail during the sinking of the Titanic. That man was Charles Joughin, who was the head baker on board the Titanic and the famous survivor who got hammered on whiskey.
Were there horses aboard the Titanic? That's still a mystery. Some sources say there were polo ponies aboard, and there's an unverified story about a German racehorse who had a private paddock on C deck.
The story of the pets traveling on the Titanic is one of the lesser-known aspects of the disaster touched on in the compelling exhibition 'Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story' at the Maritime Museum. There were 12 dogs on the Titanic and kennels were situated at the base of the dummy fourth funnel.
It is believed that upwards of 1500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic. However, amongst the survivors was the ship's head baker Charles Joughin. Whose claim to fame was not his baking skills, but how he survived the shipwreck.
Live lobsters likely weren't on board the ship in the first place, should they have been, Titanic sank in water too deep and cold for their survival. (28 degrees Fahrenheit, and that was at the surface, and 2 miles of depth. If they don't freeze, they'll be crushed by the pressure, and vice versa.)
Getting to Know the Canine Travelers
It is reported that amongst the variety of breeds being transported were a few Airedales, a Fox Terrier, King Charles Spaniel, Toy Poodle, French Bulldog, Chow-chow, Pekinese and two Pomeranians.
It was her sister, Edna Kearney Murray who survived the sinking of the Titanic but it wasn't in an overloaded lifeboat. “My great aunt Edna was in England at the time and had purchased a ticket for return passage to America on the Titanic,” Chris said.
At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week.
Jenny was the name of the ship's cat aboard Titanic & was mentioned in the accounts of several of the crew members who survived the ocean liner's fateful 1912 maiden voyage. She was transferred from Titanic's sister ship Olympic & gave birth in the week before Titanic left Southampton.
One photo shows the Titanic's captain, Captain Smith, holding a Russian wolfhound called Ben, named for industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim, who gave the captain the dog as a gift for his daughter. But Ben never made the journey, as he disembarked before the ship sailed.
Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard.
Joughin survived the sinking, swimming to upturned collapsible lifeboat B and remaining by it until he was picked up by one of the other lifeboats.
The liner Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City in 1912. THE captain of the Titanic was drunk when the liner hit an iceberg and sank, a newly unearthed document alleges. Captain Edward Smith apparently was seen drinking in the saloon bar of the ship before the collision.
Norah Callaghan and Annie Jordan had tickets to board the Titanic but did not. Jordan developed a rash that kept her from traveling, and records from another White Star ship, the Celtic, show Callaghan boarding that ship on April 12, 1912, just one day after the Titanic left Queenstown.
The lookouts along with the officers on the bridge knew that a calm ocean would make icebergs hard to see with no breaking water at the base. It was also extremely cold that night with sea surface temperatures reportedly at 28 degrees -- a lethal temperature for any person.
Food loaded onboard Titanic included 1,500 gallons of fresh milk and 600 tons of condensed milk. Titanic also carried 36,000 oranges and 16,000 lemons.
Though the death of Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) is often regarded as the saddest in Titanic, u/BuachEtiveMor found the deaths of the other nameless passengers to be much sadder. Especially the third-class passengers, who had no chance of escaping the sinking ship at all.
"We've seen pairs of shoes, which would strongly suggest there was a body there at one point. But we've never seen any human remains,” said Cameron.
The Titanic was the first ship to come with a heated swimming pool. Not surprisingly, it was for the exclusive use of first-class passengers. As were the Turkish bath, squash court and dog kennel. 700 third or steerage class passengers had to share 2 bathtubs - not many for a journey lasting almost 6 days.