London to Cape Town
How long did it take to travel from London to Cape Town in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 15 days door to door, £86 10s. in first class.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
The journey in 1925
- Getting to the port
- London → Southampton (by rail, about 2 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Southampton
- Sailing
- Thursday 19 March 1925
- Steamer
- R.M.S. Stellenbosch · Tafelberg Mail · Southampton – Funchal – Cape Town
- Calls
- Funchal
- via
- Las Palmas and St Helena
- Arrival
- Cape Town, Friday 3 April 1925
- Door to door
- 15 days
- Fare · First Class
- £86 10s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £55
- Fare · Third Class
- £25 10s.
The journey in 1933
- Embarkation
- London
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- City of Glasgow · Empire Air Routes · London – Paris – Genoa – Naples – Piraeus – Alexandria – Baghdad – Basra – Karachi
- Calls
- Paris, Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Alexandria, Cairo, Khartoum, Nairobi, Johannesburg
- Night stops
- Genoa, Piraeus, Khartoum, Nairobi, Johannesburg
- via
- Assiut and Wadi Halfa, Juba and Kisumu, Mbeya and Salisbury, Kimberley
- Arrival
- Cape Town, Sunday 24 September 1933
- Door to door
- 8 days
- Fare · Single class
- £270
Transfer at Alexandria to the Empire Air Routes
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