
My husband has a subscription to the Journal of the Navy for years. The truth is that it has a number of paragraphs full of curiosities, stories of the sea, sailors, people delivered and especially history. Reading the number of October last year in the Miscellaneous section found an article that we discussed with friends and we laugh game, I searched for information over the network and have come up photos of the protagonist of the story I'm going to copy and well worth a comment.
24,393 .- born survivor. (Signed JR)
On May 27, 1941, shortly after that the battleship Bismarck was sunk in a terrible and unequal combatecuando the destroyer HMS Cossack trying to rescue survivors of the battleship, from the wreck appeared a cat climbed a tree. A sailor of the destroyer was lowered to the surface and was rescued. ERL cat was black with a white band on the neck, had yellow eyes and wearing a collar with a badge with his name, Oscar, and explained that part of the "endowment" of the German battleship.
The castaway cat adopt left the Royal Navy and remained in the Cossack until October 23 was sunk by German submarine U 563. Oscar could be safe in a destroyer of boats, rescued by the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, which was again adopted, but not for long, since the November 14 U 81 torpedoed the carrier, sinking. Survivor
born, Oscar again saved his skin, but did not return to sea, perhaps to understand the Admiralty that if Germany was not a spy, was a downright jinxed. He spent "for" the home of marine Belfast, where he later died a peaceful existence, they say that looking at the sea in 1955.
This is the amazing story of Oscar cat ... but the good news is that network to search for information on this cat, especially a picture to illustrate the subject, I bullet with another cat named Oscar and the truth has given me a bad feeling about the history of those that make your hair stand on end ... if anyone is curious just have to find the net ... I do not say much else.