Jenny was the name of the ship's cat aboard Titanic & was mentioned in the accounts of several of the crew members who survived the ocean liner's fateful 1912 maiden voyage. She was transferred from Titanic's sister ship Olympic & gave birth in the week before Titanic left Southampton. The galley is where Jenny & her kittens normally lived, cared for by the victualing staff who fed them kitchen scraps. Stewardess Violet Jessop later wrote in her memoir that the cat "laid her family near Jim, the scullion, whose approval she always sought & who always gave her warm devotion.".
Jenny and her kittens' fate is unknown. Some believe she went down with the ship, while some have witnessed her carrying her kittens off the ship in Southampton. Rumor has it that Jenny's unofficial caretaker Jim saw her leaving the ship with her kittens and saw it as an omen. He is said to have also packed up his things and left the ship after seeing her.
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