Mrs. Chippy was the male ship’s cat aboard Shackleton’s Endurance, later killed after the ship was crushed and survival on the ice became impossible.

Endurance / Weddell Sea pack ice, Antarctica

Story

Mrs. Chippy lived aboard Endurance as Harry McNish’s ship cat and was remembered by the crew.

After the ship was crushed, Shackleton ordered animals unlikely to survive killed, a decision that haunted McNish.

Mrs. Chippy is archived because expedition history should also remember the animals carried into human danger.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Mrs Chippy
• BBC: Antarctic hero reunited with cat
• Wikimedia Commons: Mrs Chippy