Ratsbane
"Animals are such agreeable friends," wrote George Eliot. "They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." Maybe that's why so many explorers included cats among their ships' crews.
A cat named Nigeraurak accompanied Vilhjalmur Stefansson to the arctic in 1913; another, Mrs. Chippy, set out for Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton the next year. Matthew Flinders' cat Trim circled Australia with him in 1803, and the first cat to sail around the world was Khouli-Khan, with Adm. George Anson in 1744.
If you have neglected to buy a cat for your own ship, don't worry, you can buy a creepy fake one.
