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Lee Dalgetty

The brave Glasgow moggy who served as ship's cat aboard Endurance before it sank

The lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Endurance, was reportedly found today this week after being crushed by sea-ice and sinking in 1915.

All of the human crew survived, though the sink was not without tragedy.

A Glasgow born kitty was taken aboard the ship by Harry “Chippy” McNish, who was a master carpenter and shipwright.

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