Hours later, Oscar was purportedly found floating on a board and picked from the water by the British destroyer HMS Cossack. Bismarck was sunk after a fierce naval battle on 27 May, and only 115 of her crew of over 2,100 survived the engagement. The black-and-white-patched cat was supposedly owned by an unknown crewman of the German battleship Bismarck and was on board the ship on when he set sail on Operation Rheinübung (German for Rhine Exercise), Bismarck 's only mission. "Oscar" was derived from the International Code of Signals for the letter 'O', which is code for " Man Overboard" (the German spelling, "Oskar", was sometimes used, since he was a German cat). The name "Oscar" was given by the crew of the British destroyer HMS Cossack that rescued him from the sea following the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oskar or Oscar) is the nickname of a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships.
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