My partner’s great uncle Perce was on that expedition, he was a stowaway and eventually became carpenter and cook. He adopted the ships cat who was called ‘Mrs

My partner’s great uncle Perce was on that expedition, he was a stowaway and eventually became carpenter and cook. He adopted the ships cat who was called ‘Mrs Chippy’ because it followed him everywhere (chippy being slang for carpenter). Lost most of his toes to frostbite but survived to make it back to Britain. His first cousin was still alive until a few years ago and she recounted him saying that he would never leave Newport again.