You’ve heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the brassy, nouveau riche millionaire mine owner’s wife who made it safely off the sinking Titanic. As incredible as that was, she had nothing on a remarkably feisty feline. Because he survived not one, but three separate ship sinkings … and in wartime, too, no less.

At least, that’s the story. Listen to it and then decide for yourself.

Meet Unsinkable Sam, the luckiest cat in the world.

It would be all too easy to make a lame reference to a cat having nine lives. Sam must have had at least twice that many.

Very little is known about his early life. He was likely born in Germany because he wound up on a German battleship in World War II. For centuries, sailors kept cats with them on the high seas, partly for the companionship, partly to go

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