Mrs Chippy, the ship's cat who accompanied the crew on Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition

Found on this orange sight post from a user who has a familial relation to the man in the picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy

They didn't realize until a month in that Mrs Chippy was a boy lol.

He was described as "full of character" by members of the expedition and impressed the crew with his ability to walk along the ship's inch-wide rails in even the roughest seas. In Captain Frank Worsley's diary he describes Mrs Chippy climbing the rigging "... exactly after the manner of a seaman going aloft".

Mrs Chippy's voyage was not without incident. Storekeeper Thomas Orde-Lees, in a diary entry dated 13 September 1914, relates that "An extraordinary thing happened during the night. The tabby cat jumped overboard through one of the cabin portholes and the officer on watch, Lt. Hudson, heard her screams and turned the ship smartly round & picked her up. She must have been in the water 10 minutes or more". The cat was retrieved by the ship's biologist, Robert Clark, using one of his sample nets.

He was unfortunately killed when the Endurance went under :(