Jenny
Jenny ranks as among the unluckiest ship’s cats in history. Jenny was a ship’s cat aboard the White Star Line’s Olympic, where she lived mostly in the second class areas of the ship, sleeping most often in the ship’s galley, where the scullions (dishwashers) ensured that she was well fed and generally looked after.
Either there was at least one other cat aboard Olympic or Jenny enjoyed a turn ashore because she became pregnant, and was in that state when her primary human companion was transferred from Olympic to its sister-ship, RMS Titanic while lying in Southampton in 1912.
Titanic left Southampton in April of 1912, with stops in Cherbourg, France and Cork Harbor, Ireland to collect passengers prior to final departure for the Atlantic crossing to New York. Sometime during the early stages of the voyage, Jenny gave birth to her kittens. As in her days in Olympic, Jenny remained in the general vicinity of one of the ship’s galleys, where she and her kittens were looked after by the crew.
She was mentioned in the memoirs of at least one survivor as offering “…warm devotion” to one crew member in particular, who had brought her aboard the ill-fated liner. Jenny and her kittens were lost with the ship.