Siboney (CVE 112) - Naval Cruise Book

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HURRICANE . -2 Loading l00,000 pounds of food in eight hours WHO COULD FORGET 4 October, 1955! At noon, orders were received to load as many supplies as possible, prepare to receive twelve HRS type heli- copters, and to get underway for Tam- pico, Mexico, to assist in relieving the disaster created by the passage of an extremely destructive hurricane, and the devastating floods that were its con- sequence. X - 4 '..1l'i 0 0's U WU? vo .,'f fN3:r-M4 T-X n 1000 Yellow Fever shots in two hours X' EIGHT HOURS AFTER receipt of that message, SIBONEY was underway for Tampico. In those eight hours we had loaded fifty tons of food, bales of bed- ding, a large stock of medicines and other assorted items. And we had re- ceived the 12 helicopters. 6 l060 loaves per day

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RESCUE GPERATICDNS THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT was given a workout also. More than one thousand innoculations against Yellow Fever were given within two hours. The ship's bake shop turned out 1060 loaves of bread per day. The commissary crew turned-to parcelling beans, rice, flour, and other provisions. Individual packages were consolidated into lots, and palletized for efficient delivery ashore by helicopter. But, nobody had any regrets for the long hours of hard work when they witnessed the farewell demonstration given by 15,000 local citizens. As SIBONEY got underway to re- turn to the United States, a Mexican aircraft flew overhead and strewed flowers on her flight deck. Main Highway