Newfoundland (dog) - Famous Newfoundlands

Famous Newfoundlands

• Adam: Seaward's Blackbeard: 1984 Best in Show winner at the Westminster Dog Show
• Ava Marie : 2004 Best In Show aka "Josh" Granddaughter is a lifeguard in Goshen, NY
• Bashaw (Matthew Cotes Wyatt): The Earl of Dudley's favourite dog, a sculpture by Matthew Cotes Wyatt can be seen at the Victoria and Albert museum in London
• Boatswain: pet of English poet Lord Byron and the subject of his poem "Epitaph to a Dog"
• Bilbo: lifeguard at Sennon cove beach in Cornwall
• Brumus: Robert F. Kennedy's dog
• Brutus: first dog to complete the Appalachian Mountain Club's "Winter 48", climbing all 48 peaks in one calendar winter
• Carlo: Emily Dickinson's dog
• Charlie Erhart: Lyndon B. Johnson's dog
• Darbydale's All Rise Pouchcove (AKA Josh): 2004 Best in Show winner at the Westminster Dog Show
• Faithful: First dog of President Ulysses S. Grant
• Frank: Unofficial mascot of the Orphan Brigade during the American Civil War
• Gander: the Mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada who was killed in action at the Battle of Hong Kong when he carried a grenade away from wounded soldiers. For this he was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal retroactively in 2000.
• Hairy Man: The dog who helped Ann Harvey and her father and brother rescue 163 people from a shipwreck.
• Luath: Landseer Newfoundland pet of J. M. Barrie and the inspiration for "Nana", the Darling children's nurse in Peter Pan.
• Mas: first Newfoundland dog to jump out of a helicopter Ecurel B-350 in 1992 during a joint training exercise between Scuola Italiana Cani Salvataggio, SICS, and Aeronautica Militare.
• Pluto: pet of the Croatian operatic soprano Ilma de Murska, which used to dine at table with her and was trained to eat a cooked fowl from a place setting without dripping gravy on the tablecloth. Pluto lived in the 1860s.
• Rigel: pet of first officer William Murdoch aboard the RMS Titanic. Murdoch went down with the ship but Rigel swam for three hours next to a lifeboat until it was rescued by the RMS Carpathia. Rigel is renowned as a hero alerting the ship's captain of the weakened survivors before the ship hit them. Rigel was adopted by crewman Jonas Briggs.
• Robber: dog of Richard Wagner who accompanied him on his flight from his creditors from Riga on a fishing boat, which inspired the opera The Flying Dutchman.
• Russ: last dog of Richard Wagner, buried at the feet of his master in the composer's tomb in the park of Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth, under his own plaque: "Here rests and watches Wagner's Russ."
• Sable Chief: mascot of Royal Newfoundland Regiment
• Swansea Jack: Famous Welsh rescue dog
• Seaman: companion of explorer Meriwether Lewis
• Yogi: John Madden's Newfoundland