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Rigel was a large black Newfoundland dog who was said to have saved some of the survivors of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''. One account of the story was published in the New York Herald, April 21, 1912,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Newfoundland Aboard The Titanic )〕 the other was the book ''Sinking of the Titanic and Great sea disasters''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters )〕 by Logan Marshall, published 1912.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The-Legend-Of-Rigel-Titanic )〕 However, although the story has been widely reproduced, there is certain doubt about whether the dog actually existed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=the-heroic-dog-the-titanic )〕 ==Dog== Rigel was said to have been owned by William McMaster Murdoch, the First Officer of the . Murdoch died in the sinking, but Rigel swam away, and stayed close to one of the lifeboats. When arrived on the scene looking for survivors, Rigel began to bark. The lifeboat had drifted under the bows of the ''Carpathia'', and was at risk of being run down, but the people in the boat were too exhausted to make themselves heard. Rigel's barks alerted Captain Arthur Rostron, who ordered the engines stopped and began the search for survivors. Everyone in the lifeboat was saved, and Rigel was pulled from the icy water after three hours, unaffected by the experience. The dog was too large to be pulled from the water by hand, but Jonas Briggs managed to get a canvas sling under its belly, with which it was hauled aboard. This story was told by Jonas Briggs, a seaman aboard the ''Carpathia''. Briggs later adopted the dog. Doubts have been raised about the story. It seems that Jonas Briggs was not in fact a crew member of the ''Carpathia''. Also, none of the survivors in lifeboat number four mentioned the dog. So the story might be untrue. An other theory, by notably Stanley Coren PhD, claims that person who had adopted Rigel from the Carpathia's crew was called John Brown, Carpathia's Master at Arms, while "Brigg" was the name of a passenger from one of the lifeboats. According to this, John Brown took the dog with him home to Scotland, when he retired, soon after the incident, and where the dog lived to an old age, at John Brown's rural home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Murdochs_herioc_dog_Rigel )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rigel (dog)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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