High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS City of Cairo was a British passenger steamer. She was sunk in the Second World War with heavy loss of life. She was built by Earle?s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd,, Hull in 1915 for Ellerman Lines Ltd of London. She was 450 feet (140 m) long, had two decks, two masts and measured 8,034 tons. She was homeported in Liverpool. She was requisitioned during the Second World War to bring supplies to the United Kingdom. Her last voyage, under the command of her Master, William A. Rogerson, was to take her from Bombay, which she departed on 1 October 1940 to the UK, via Durban, Cape Town and Pernambuco, Brazil.