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The Dogs of the Titanic

Owners Breed Boarded Home Cabin # Lifeboat Survived?
Robert Williams Daniel, 27, a banker traveling alone 1) French bulldog, "Gamin de Pycombe" Southampton Philadelphia   Went down with the ship and was pulled aboard by a lifeboat Daniel- yes

Bulldog- no, although it was seen in the water by R.N. Williams

Henry Sleeper Harper, 48, a publishing scion traveling with his wife, Myra, 49, a manservant, and an Egyptian dragoman 2) Pekinese, "Sun Yat Sen" Cherbourg New York City D-33 Lifeboat 3

wife, servant and companion all escaped in LB3

Harper-yes

Pekinese-yes

Helen Bishop, 19, newlywed, honeymooning with Dickinson H. Bishop 3) small, unknown breed, "Frou Frou" Cherbourg Dowagiac, Michigan B-49 Lifeboat 7 Bishop and her husband- yes

Frou Frou- no, left locked in cabin

Harry Anderson, 47, stockbroker, traveling alone 4) Chow Southampton New York City E-12 Lifeboat 3 Anderson- yes

Chow- no

William Ernest Carter, 36, traveling with his wife, Lucile, 36, daughter, also Lucile, 14, and son, William the II, 11. Also traveling with a maid and manservant 5) and 6) two small dogs. One was a King Charles Spaniel and the other's breed is unknown. Southampton Bryn Mawr, PA. B-96 and B-98 Collapsible C; wife and children left the ship in Lifeboat 4; servants were both lost all members of family- yes

dogs- no

Margaret Hays, 24, traveling alone 7) Pomeranian Cherbourg New York City C-54 Lifeboat 7 Hays-yes

Pomeranian-yes

Col. John Jacob Astor, 47, real estate tycoon traveling with his pregnant wife, Madeleine, 19, and a maid and a manservant 8) and 9) Airedale, "Kitty," and a second dog, probably also an Airedale, per a report from survivor Edwiga Goldenberg Cherbourg New York City C-62 Astor went down with the ship and was crushed by a falling funnel. Manservant was lost. Wife and maid survived on Lifeboat 4. Astor- no

Airedales- no

wife- yes

William Crothers Dulles, 39, attorney, traveling alone 10) unknown breed, listed in channel crossing records simply as "dog." Possibly a Pomeranian or a fox terrier. Cherbourg Philadelphia A-18 Went down with the ship Dulles- no

dog- no

Ann Isham, 50, spinster expatriate who had been living in Paris with her sister for the previous nine years (Isham is a possible, not a verified, dog owner.) 11) Great Dane (could also have been a Saint Bernard or a Newfoundland) Cherbourg Paris and New York City C-49 Refused to get in a lifeboat without her dog. Isham- no

dog-no

A woman was spotted by passengers on the German liner "Bremen" two days after the sinking, floating in her lifejacket with her arms wrapped around a large dog.

Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild, 54, wife of leather magnate Martin Rothschild, traveling with her husband. 12) Pomeranian Cherbourg New York City   Lifeboat 6 Rothschild- yes

Pomeranian-yes

Mrs. Rothschild and her dog were on the same boat as the famously unsinkable Molly Brown. Martin Rothschild went down with the ship.

FICTIONAL

Sam Harris, 12, returning to the U.S. after three years of boarding school in England.

Irish setter, "White Star," owned by J. Bruce Ismay, president of the White Star Line and also a passenger on the Titanic. Southampton for Sam; Queenstown, Ireland for the dog Lancaster, PA. B-47 Lifeboat 4 Sam- yes

Star- yes

Boy and dog were rescued from the water right after Lifeboat 4 was lowered.

 

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