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Did you know... that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?

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SS City of Cairo Rediscovered[edit]

The SS City of Cairo has been recently rediscovered, the page is due for an update.

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http://www.deepoceansearch.com/City_Of_Cairo.htm http://www.sscityofcairo.co.uk/ http://expeditionwriter.com/?p=884

Expeditionwriter (talk) 17:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Engines[edit]

Only the very largest ships were fitted with quadruple expansion engines. This ship seems to be too small for such engines, so in the interests of accuracy should this read TRIPLE Expansion. These latter were the standard MN engines until the coming of the Diesel engine.AT Kunene 123 (talk) 12:47, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]