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^[1] – mid 1942^[2]
Acting Captain Eustace H. Wace, 1942 – 24 May, 1945 (vice "Kirkpatrick")
Commander Walter W. Sitwell, 1 January, 1946 – 28 March, 1946

Captain (retired) Lawrence de W. Satow, 2 February, 1916 – 11 February, 1918
Commander (retired) Walter H. C. Calthrop, February, 1918 – 25 October, 1918 (sick at end)
Acting Commander R.N.R. Gordon S. Horsburgh, 23 October, 1918 – 12 June, 1919^[3]