Seafurrers by Philippa Sandall

Author:Philippa Sandall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Experiment

Incidentally . . .

Pets were very much a feature of life at sea in both world wars. Gilbert Adshead, engine room artificer in HMS Lord Nelson in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Gallipoli campaign (February 1915 to January 1916), recalled they had several pets on board, including:

a pigeon; a couple of canaries; a black cat; a white cat; a bulldog, who was mascot of the football team; a Manchester terrier, a lady, who eventually begat herself a family when we were refitting and brought them all on board as well; and we had early, at the beginning of the war, a goat. Oh, and we had a monkey. He was a nice fellow old Jacko. . . .

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