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}} Colonel John Cyril Porte CMG, FRAeS, Royal Navy (26 February 1884 – 22 October 1919) was a flying boat pioneer associated with the World War I Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe.〔 ==Biography== Porte was born on 26 February 1884 to Reverend John Robert Porte (1849–1922) TCD and Henrietta (née Scott) in Bandon, County Cork,〔(Notice of Death. ''Flight'' ). 30 October 1919〕 Ireland. Reverend Dr. Porte served as Rector of St Peter's, Ballymodan, Bandon before moving to England with his family as Vicar of St Matthew's church, Denmark Hill in 1890. Rev. Porte's father, George Porte (1819–1892) was a Civil Engineer living in Dublin, member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland. Porte joined the Royal Navy in 1898, passing through HMS ''Britannia'' before joining HMS ''Royal Oak''. He transferred to the Royal Navy Submarine Service in 1906 receiving his training on HMS ''Thames'' before HMS ''Forth'' and duties on submarines, his first command was HMS ''B3'' in 1908. In 1910 he joined HMS ''Mercury'' for duties on a Holland-class submarine, taking over HMS ''C38'' on 31 March 1910. It was during his service as a submariner that Porte contracted tuberculosis, being discharged in 1911 with the rank of Lieutenant, RN. He was also assigned to HMS ''President'' in London for a flying course.〔 Porte learnt to fly by the end of 1910 using a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle that he built himself 〔 and gained his flying certificate (No. 548) with the Aero Club de France 28 July 1911, flying a Deperdussin monoplane〔 at Reims airfield. Six days prior, Porte took part in the ''Daily Mail'' Circuit of Britain from Brooklands with the first British built 60hp Anzani Deperdussin monoplane,〔 but suffered an unfortunate accident on take off. With Admiral Edmund Fremantle as chairman and Louis Béchereau as Technical Director of the Paris Deperdussin works acting as technical advisor, Porte was test pilot, and joint managing director of the British Deperdussin Company in April 1912 alongside Italian D. Lawrence Santoni, who eventually went on to found Savoia. They were the first to establish a British factory for the manufacture of a foreign aircraft; with Porte also as technical director and designer, Frederick Koolhoven joined them from France as chief engineer and works manager in the summer of 1912. Porte flew Deperdussin aircraft in the Military Aeroplane Trials〔at Larkhill and air races at Hendon Aerodrome. About November 1912 he became a director of British Anzani, with Santoni as Chairman and Captain J. C. Halahan (Royal Dublin Fusiliers and RFC) Manager of the Deperdussin Flying School at Hendon, W. Ridley Prentice and Claude Scholfield, who supplied engines for the British-built Deperdussin. Following the collapse and liquidation of Deperdussin from about August 1913, Porte was employed by White & Thompson as a designer and test pilot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cyril Porte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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