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An open livestock carrier with a cargo of sheep from Australia, docked in Oman. A livestock carrier is a seagoing vessel for the transportation of live animals. Typically it is large ship used in the live export of sheep, cattle and goats. Livestock carriers may be specially built new or converted from container ships.
The first known records of livestock transportation by ship occurred in about 1607 on an English ship named the Susan Constant, which was transporting Jamestown bound colonists. As time passed and the New World developed, supply ships from England carried livestock as regular cargo. Purebred stock was imported to Plymouth and Philadelphia.
SS Tauric was a steamship built in 1891 by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line and completed on 16 May 1891. She was the sister ship of Nomadic [1] [2] Though designed as a livestock carrier, Tauric carried a small amount of cabin-(second-) and steerage-(third-) class passengers.
SS Naronic, livestock carrier for White Star Line, launched 26 May 1892, completed 11 July 1892, maiden voyage 15 July 1892, missing at sea March 1893. SS Bovic, livestock carrier for White Star Line, launched 28 June 1892, completed 22 August 1892, maiden voyage 26 August 1892, renamed Colonian, scrapped 1928.
The 190-meter long (623 foot) Al Kuwait is a Kuwaiti-flagged livestock vessel, according to the Marine Traffic website. It docked in Cape Town to load feed for the cattle, the SPCA said.
The ship, MV Bahijah, left for Israel on Jan. 5 from Fremantle, a port city in Western Australia, with 15,000 sheep and 2,500 cattle on board, according to Mark Harvey-Sutton, chief executive of ...
Cymric had originally been intended to be an enlarged version of SS Georgic, [1] being a combination of a passenger liner and livestock carrier, with accommodation for only First Class passengers. During the stages of her design layout, it became clearer to the designers at Harland and Wolff that combining passengers and livestock had become ...
Animal transporters are used to transport livestock or non-livestock animals over long distances. They could be specially-modified vehicles, trailers, ships or aircraft containers. [1] [2] While some animal transporters like horse trailers only carry a few animals, modern ships engaged in live export can carry tens of thousands.