Port Said

The Egyptian city Port Said was a minor Royal Navy base in the Great War on the Mediterranean. It afforded access to the Suez Canal.

In Command

• Acting Captain Ernest E. A. Betts, 7 December, 1916 – March, 1919
• Commander (retired) Rowland K. C. Pope, 17 September, 1935 – 24 April, 1936
• Acting Captain Henry A. Simpson, c. May 1936 – 5 August, 1937
• Acting Captain Henry A. Simpson, 6 October, 1937 – 6 February, 1940
• Retired Captain Gerald H. Brady, 12 January, 1941 – 29 January, 1941  (temporary, while "Haynes" is sick)
• Captain William Bayard Hynes, 1942 – mid 1942

See Also

• Wikipedia