London to Hong Kong
How long did it take to travel from London to Hong Kong in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 34 days door to door, £156 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
- Friday 13 March 1925
- Steamer
- R.M.S. Mahanadi · O. & I. Mail · Southampton – Port Said – Colombo – Singapore – Hong Kong – Shanghai – Yokohama
- Calls
- Port Said, Colombo, Singapore
- via
- Gibraltar and Malta, the Suez Canal and Aden
- the Suez Canal transit
- the Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
- Arrival
- Hong Kong, Thursday 16 April 1925
- Door to door
- 34 days
- Fare · First Class
- £156
- Fare · Second Class
- £102
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, Baghdad, Basra, Karachi, Delhi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore
- Night stops
- Genoa, Piraeus, Alexandria, Baghdad, Delhi, Calcutta, Rangoon
- via
- Lyons and Marseilles, Corfu, Tobruk, Gaza and Rutbah, Bushire, Jask and Gwadar
- Arrival
- Hong Kong, Monday 2 October 1933
- Door to door
- 16 days
- Fare · Single class
- £270
Transfer at Karachi to the Empire Air Routes Transfer at Singapore to the O. & I. Mail
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