Cyril Cartwright (28 January 1924 – 29 September 2015) was a British cyclist who held national records on the track and on the road and came second in the world amateur pursuit championship in Copenhagen in 1949.

[4] He won the national 25-mile time trial championship in 1948, one of the first riders in the country to beat one hour for the distance.

Cartwright got in as many miles as he could before the ship left in January, including riding from Manchester to London and back over a weekend.

If the sea was rough, I rode port and starboard across the ship behind a bulkhead to keep the spray off me, hanging on for dear life with one hand.

In the first half he had 15 yards' lead on me after my weak start, but then I got down in my streamlined position and settled down to pace I knew I could hold.