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Hugh.Thank you for visiting my website, so let me reciprocate in complimenting you on your great website, dedicated to your dear father. As I too have dedicated my own to all the Merchant seamen/women who gave their young lives during WW2.
My sincere congratulations once more.
Kind regards. John Townsend

I just wanted to email you to congratulate you on your site, and to say, basically, that the Internet has come up "trumps" again!
I am, frankly amazed that I'm emailing a relative of someone who served on this ship, and here's why:
In the 80's while still at School, for some reason or other I picked up the book in the library, and must have read it cover to cover a dozen times, and it made a huge impact on me: despite knowing from my Grandfather about the
war, and from other books, this particular one flowed with clarity on the
subject, I found it horrific and scary, yet uplifting at the same time.
Anyway, over the years, I forgot about the book"s title etc, and couldn't
work out how to get a copy. Then, a few years back when I got "online", I typed "Boundy" and "Boat" into google, with no luck.
Tonight, however, I was reading about the titanic, and the whole story of City of Cairo sprang to mind and I re-typed "Boundy" - and up came your site! Amazing!
Well done on a truly excellent site ...

My father was on this ship, and this is what he told me. He was able to get his boat to within 50 miles of St. Helena when they were picked up. He did learn to make lace on the island. He was also furious that "Good men had to give up the seats on the boats for women and children.!!"

I have two photographs of the City of Cairo on my website, and you are more than welcome to use them, but if you prefer I will send you the scans. Great website you have here, keep up the good work, Regards Tony Jones.

While researching my Family History I stumbled upon your website which I have found extremely interesting. My father"s eldest brother Alfred Racher was returning from the Far East. He was a passenger on a ship which was torpedoed, was rescued, and taken to St Helena. He remained there for some time and learned to make lace while convalescing. It seems somewhat coincidental a passenger of that name is listed as being in Lifeboat No.6 of the SS City of Cairo, and I am wondering whether this could possibly have been my uncle. I understood from my father that my uncle had been sent overseas to investigate problems involving the firing mechanism on aircraft guns.

I think your page in honour of your father is great. well done. I have added my Grandfather Captain Duncan Cameron Kennedy to web sites in his honour. will send you a photo of the S.S Cape Nelson who my Grandfather served many years on also. How did you get names of people in life boats?. I have also been to Kew to look at ship logs etc. Bit of a novice compared to you.

Great site Hugh, and a lovely tribute to your dad. I had the privilege to know Angus Macdonald Q.M. No.1 Boat. when I sailed out of Manchester in the 50"s and 60"s. He was a National Union of Seaman delegate there. He used to go aboard ships sorting out problems and collecting subscriptions etc. He was a very modest man and a keen photographer. I don"t think that any body knew what he had been through, I never heard him talk about it. It was only a few years ago when I read "Goodnight, sorry for sinking you" that I realised it was the Angus Macdonald that I had known in Manchester. I often wonder what happened to him as I left Manchester to sail out of London in 1966.
Do you have any news of him Hugh.

Excellently presented site, well done.

What a lovely tribute to your dad.

Brilliant Site Hugh!! Well done! maj x