Mrs. Chippy [SEP] continent
One month after the ship set sail for Antarctica it was discovered that, despite "her" name, Mrs Chippy was actually a male. By that time, however, the name had stuck. 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
Mrs Chippy was a cat (actually male) who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
Life.
Mrs Chippy, a tiger-striped tabby, was taken on board the expedition's ship "Endurance" as a ship's cat by carpenter and master shipwright Harry "Chippy" McNish ("Chippy" being a colloquial British term for a carpenter). The cat acquired its name because, once aboard, it followed McNish around like an overly-attentive wife.