Re: Interesing Bit of History

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:51:59 GMT, Jim Casey <seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

wkambic@xxxxxxx wrote:

http://ag.missouristate.edu/mule8.htm

Interesting. My mind reels at the thought of a ship loaded with thousands
of head of livestock.

The Army owned at least one transport that was purpose built-out for
hauling horses back and forth to the Phillipines. It operated from
around 1906 to sometime in the '20s, IIRC. They could handle 250
head, more or less. The trip took almost a month.

During the Spanish-American War there was an inadequate number of
transports for livestock. (TRs Rough Riders went to Cuba with only
1/3 of their horses). Unloading was done by driving the horses
overboard, then herding them ashore with lifeboats. This was a
marginal propostion, as more than one group swam out to sea vice to
the beach. Just to show there is often nothing new under the Sun,
this is how Columbus unloaded horses and cattle during his voyages in
the 1490s.

Several hundred thousnd head of horses and mules were provided by the
Army Remount Service during WWII. The vast majority went to the
Pacific and South Asian theaters of operation, primarily to the Indian
and Chinese Armies. I don't know much about the transport of these
animals. I suspect that Liberty or Victory ships were modified as
required to haul them.

Bill Kambic
Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão
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