 The airship's engines failed, and the small crew and Kiddo abandoned the "America" for lifeboats when they sighted the Royal Mail steamship "SS Trent" near Bermuda.Kiddo then was retired from being a ship's cat and was taken care of by Edith Wellman Ainsworth, the daughter of the American journalist, explorer, and aviator, Walter Wellman, who made the daring attempt.Mrs Chippy (actually a male) was the ship's cat aboard "Endurance", the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.