British cattle transport lost according to the Dutch newspaper Goessche Courant dated 18 January 1902

An item reported that according to the master of a small ocean ship who arrived in a harbour of Texas seeking shelter for a hurricane said that he saw underway several cadavers of oxen and mules. It’s believed that they were part of a cargo of a British transport which left New Orleans some days earlier for South Africa and from which nothing more heard was. Rumours claimed that she was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of an assessment by agents of the Boers.(1)

Note

1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.