On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:35:34 -0000, Skip Gundlach
wrote:

[Good stuff snipped]

The battleship Bismarck had a cat, name of Oscar. The cat survived the
sinking and was picked up by the British destroyer Cossack, which was
torpedoed in the Med. Transferred to Ark Royal, he survived when that
ship met a U-boat three weeks later. He ended up in a sailor's home in
Belfast.
http://www.pittelli.com/NABS/TALES.HTM

I think if I took a cat with me, I would also carry a fisherman's dip
net.

Casady