Dear Hugh, you have truly honoured your father and your mother and all those who were on the ship. The accounts moved me to tears and it must have cost you dearly to write so clearly of those events. Hope I can follow your example when I now begin to write my own book. You have brought comfort, peace, I feel, to many who had unanswered questions. Thanks Hugh for your example. Ann Don
Hi
The Lycaon continued service in the Falklands when I was there in 1983. She was used as a supply ship along with another called the Corato. They were used in Op Shepherd and Op Tantara the building of 2 remote radar stations by 3 Field Squadron Royal Engineers. Both had heli deck and contained all the equipment and stores to build the stations.....
Cheers
pete
What a fabulous website. A tribute to what so few went through for so many.
My Grandfather was present on MV calchas, which was torpedoed on 21 April 1941.
A quite horrific story followed of weeks at sea in an open boat.
I would be interested to find out if you have contact details for the body who provided you with your fathers medals - do they actually keep all unclaimed medals? - that's astonishing
Can I also ask where the body of photos came from? people on the web or through what appears to be years of research.
All the best
Nick.
Assistant engineer David Dick from Govan was aged 23 when the SS City of Cairo was torpedoed.
David, an friend of mine, sadly died last month aged 89yrs. He often talked of the time he was torpedoed and spent 14 days at sea, but now thanks to this wonderful website I can read so much about the events and horrors of those days.
A private posting relating to Hugh Miller Porterfield.
This is a wonderful site and a great tribute to some amazing people.
Kind regards,
Laura
Hi Hugh
Further to our private messages, you have a really great and thoroughly interesting web site.
I should continue to supply information on the City of Cairo as it relates to World War I and as troop ship carrying Canadians to and from Britain.
Cheers
Bob
Hugh
As a fellow seafarer who has also had a ship lost underneath me in the Falklands, I find your site fantastic. BZ.
Shaun 
Hugh what a touching tribute to your Dad.
Amazing to think that so many relatives are hearing the facts of SS City of Cairo for the first time!
A tremendous achievement!
Thank you sincerely for this,
A truly magnificent effort.
I worked for Ellerman and Bucknall in the seventies. In port operations. Sadly, the company is no more - now absorbed by the huge conglomerates - this went against the wishes of Sir John Reeve. Thank you very, very much again.
Hi Hugh,
firstly, I wanted to congratulate you on your tribute to your father, and also to those who were both lost and survived the sinking of the SS City of Cairo.
I have to say that I'd never heard the story until a few years ago, when I had the privilege of nursing an elderly retired Naval Commander.......and survivor of the SS City of Cairo!! His name?? Ted Elliot, or rather, "Commander Ted", as I referred to him!! He's actually pictured in one of your photographs which, as I recall, were included in Ralph Barker's book??!!
Sadly, Commander Ted passed away on 01.09.03, aged 83yrs, out-living his life-long friend and fellow survivor, Tom Parkinson, by a couple of years.
Forgive any errors made in dictation and my lack of knowledge, but I thought you may be interested in one of the postings I made during Ted's final months...
Once again, thankyou!!
Jude
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