<P> There were many animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage, which ended with the ship sinking on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg . </P> <P> They included dogs, cats, chickens, other birds and an unknown number of rats . Twelve dogs were on the Titanic but only three survived, and the rest of the animals perished in the disaster . </P> <P> The ship had her own official cat named Jenny, who was kept aboard Titanic as a mascot and also worked to keep down the ship's population of rats and mice . Transferred over from Titanic's sister ship Olympic, Jenny gave birth in the week before Titanic sailed from Southampton . She normally lived in the galley, where the victualling staff fed her and her kittens on scraps from the kitchens . Stewardess Violet Jessop wrote that the cat "laid her family near Jim, the scullion, whose approval she always sought and who always gave her warm devotion". </P>

How many dogs were among the survivors of the titanic