Incident 23: Swings and Roundabouts
“I John Locke, accompanied with”: Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 5 (Glasgow: James McLehose and Sons, 1904), 77, 87–88.
“millions of cats and hundreds of thousands”: Donald W. Engels, Classical Cats: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Cat (New York: Routledge, 2015), 152.
“certeine bookes of Cosmographie”: Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885), 4.
“certaine blacke slaves”: Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 6 (Glasgow: James McLehose and Sons, 1904), 176.
Incident 24: Designated Diver
“Thursday, July 11.”: Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (London: A. Millar, 1755), 87–90.
“The stories began to appear”: Craig Chamberlain, “There Have Been a Lot of Cats in The New York Times, and Not All Just for Fun,” Illinois News Bureau (blog), February 3, 2015, news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/204423.
Back in 1913, Ralph Pulitzer: Cassandra Tate, “What Do Ombudsmen Do?” Columbia Journalism Review 23, no. 1 (May/June 1984): 37.
Incident 25: Epitaph
“To the memory of Trim”: “Matthew Flinders’ Biographical Tribute to His Cat Trim.”
“the man behind the map of Australia”: Gillian Dooley, “Matthew Flinders: The Man Behind the Map of Australia,” Transactions (Royal Society of Victoria blog), October 14, 2015, transactionsvic.blogspot.com/2015/10/matthew-flinders-man-behind-map-of.html.
Incident 26: Penguin Buddies
“[January 1821] After the loss of the Cora”: Robert Fildes, “Journal of a Voyage Kept on Board Brig ‘Cora’ of Liverpool Bound to New South Shetland,” 1820–21, typescript copy at Scott Polar Research Institute, reference MS 101/1.
“No human can survive alone”: David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica (Boston: Mariner Books, 2002), vii.
“a species of very large bird”: “Important Discovery,” Imperial Magazine; Or Compendium of Religious, Moral, and Philosophical Knowledge 2, no. 18 (August 1820), 675.
“birds as big as ducks”: “Penguins in History,” Penguins-World, penguins-world.com/penguins-in-history.
“We found two islands full of geese”: Pigafetta, The First Voyage Around the World, 49.
“Penguins are recent descendants”: Campbell, The Crystal Desert, 79–80.
Incident 27: Ghost Ship
“A letter from Nassau, in the Bahamas”: “A Ship Deserted,” Sailors’ Magazine 7, no. 24 (December 1840), 383.
“scattered in an undisciplined fashion”: Bland Simpson, Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 62.
“COAST GUARD WASHINGTON D.C.”: Ibid., 11.
“Yes, I was here”: Ibid., 221.
Incident 28: Cannon Cat Cold Case
“Bailing was now resumed”: Francis B. Butts, “The Loss of the Monitor, by a Survivor,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 3, no. 2 (December 1885), 301.
“converted into a stock yard”: “The Monitor After the Battle of Hampton Roads,” Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, monitor.noaa.gov/150th/after.html.
Incident 29: Soggy, Groggy Moggies
“The Sunday before Christmas”: Robert Falcon Scott, Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. 2 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913), 256–57.
“the energy and elasticity of his movements”: “Matthew Flinders’ Biographical Tribute to His Cat Trim.”
“In Sydney we had hauled out”: Charles H. Ross, The Book of Cats, 289.
“It seemed utterly impossible”: Alan Villiers, The Cruise of the Conrad (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2006), 320.
“the help of the galley stove”: “The Future of Sailing Ships,” Lookout 28, no. 11 (November 1937): 10.
Incident 30: Hardtack Saves the Day
“biskit of muslin”: “The Ship’s Biscuit,” Royal Museums Greenwich, rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/ships-biscuit.
“one pound daily of good, clean”: Ibid.
“This stone was found wedged”: “Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard: The Rock from HMS Pique,” Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth, memorialsinportsmouth.co.uk/dockyard/pique.htm.
“The only thing that ever really frightened me”: In Gary Sheffield, “The Battle of the Atlantic: The U-Boat Peril,” BBC, last updated March 20, 2011, bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_atlantic_01.shtml.
“of the smashed ships”: Herbert Corey, “Ships Snatched from the Sea,” Nation’s Business, March 1943: 36.
Mascots
mascots “were part of the team”: Arnold Arluke and Lauren Wolfe, The Photographed Cat: Picturing Human-Feline Ties (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013), 111.
“Tom was wounded in one foot”: Mrs. Charles D. Sigsbee, “Pets in the Navy,” St. Nicholas 26, no. 1 (November 1898–April 1899): 63.
Incident 32: Turning Tricks
“His exercises commenced”: “Matthew Flinders’ Biographical Tribute to His Cat Trim.”
Incident 33: Under Fire
“We had a black and a tabby cat”: “Podcast 34: Animals in War.”
“When the war began”: Alan Taylor, “World War I in Photos: Animals at War,” Atlantic, April 27, 2014, theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-animals-at-war/507320.
Incident 34: First Aid
“13 December 1919”: US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, “Catnipped! The True Tale of Thomas Whiskers, USN,” Grog: The Journal of Navy Medical History and Heritage (originally Grog Ration) 3, no. 2 (March–April 2008): 6. Republished with permission from Mr. André B. Sobocinski, historian, Communications Directorate, US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Incident 35: The Real Deal, or Tall Tale Construction
“One of the crew happened to see Blackie”: Anna Bemrose, Mawson’s Last Survivor: The Story of Dr Alf Howard AM (Salisbury, Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2011), 92.
Incident 36: Brush with Fame
“Churchill restrains ‘Blackie’ the cat”: “Winston Churchill as Prime Minister 1940–1945,” Imperial War Museums, iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195546.
“He should have conformed”: “Churchill Should Pet Cat Only If Invited, Fans Say,” The New York Times, September 23, 1941.
“The President of the United States”: “The Atlantic Charter,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization, last updated October 1, 2009, nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_16912.htm.
Incident 37: Red Lead
“Red Lead, ship’s kitten”: “Our Furry Recruits: Cats of War,” Australian War Memorial, January 21, 2016, awm.gov.au/articles/blog/our-furry-recruits-cats-war.
“Perth was due to sail”: Ronald McKie, Proud Echo (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1953), 4–5. Published in the United States as The Survivors: The Story of the Gallant Fight of the Cruisers Perth and Houston Against Great Odds (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953).
Incident 38: Disembarking
“Detention of animals on board vessels in harbour”: “Statutory Instruments 1974 No. 2211, Animals—Diseases of Animals, The Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974,” legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/2211/made/data.xht?wrap=true.
“In consequence of complaints made”: “Sailors’ Pets,” Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania), May 5, 1908.
“All mascots had to be removed”: Michael Wynd, “Mascots in the Navy,” Navy Museum Research Inqu
iry (New Zealand), October 2013, pelorusjackblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/mascots-in-the-navy.pdf.
About the Authors
Bart may track his story back to a cat carved on a column in the sixteenth century, but scribe PHILIPPA SANDALL reckons her seafaring Norris forebears go back to Vikings who settled in Normandy and then headed to England and Hastings with William. So they say. Since then, there have been many seafarers in the family, numbers of whom have been lost overboard (and no one rowed to the rescue).
Illustrator AD LONG comes from a long line of landlubbers ... though his earliest Australian ancestors sailed out in 1788 on board the First Fleet. She was a housemaid who stole the silver; her death sentence was commuted to imprisonment at the far end of the world. He was an Irish marine who made an honest woman of her. Together they raised a bunch of kids. And they raised cats, lots of cats.
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