Gamin de Pycombe is an French Bulldog bought by Robert Williams Daniel. Which he had recently purchased for £150 (the equivalent of about $18,960 in 2020). Gamin de Pycombe was confined in the Dog Kennels under the responsibility of carpenter John Hutchinson. Gamin de Pycombe did not survived the sinking.
At some point during the sinking, someone decided to free the dogs from their kennels, including Gamin de Pycombe, leading to a pack of terrified dogs racing up and down the slanting deck as the ship went down.
Some accounts stated that Gamin de Pycombe was last seen in the water swimming for his life after the ship went down.
After the sinking, Daniel made compensation claims for his lost dog. He claimed $750 for the loss of his pedigree bulldog.
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The movie 'Titanic' from 1997 had a black, French bulldog in it that probably was portraying Gamin de Pycombe. He's seen in one actual scene: the moment that Tommy Ryan complains about dogs being let out on their Third Class Promenade on the Poop Deck, he's in the bundle that's been taken for a walk on a leech.
There were also deleted scenes during the night of April 15 when Titanic was sinking, some dogs were running over the Boat Deck, to the surprise of Caledon and Lovejoy, who just halted to look at them run by, suggesting that they were let free from the Kennels. The same black French bulldog was among the pack.
Lastly, after Titanic had foundered and all these people are in the water, a black bulldog swims for his life in the ice cold water, past Rose and Jack.