London to Sydney
How long did it take to travel from London to Sydney in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 36 days door to door, £130 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
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- S.S. Canopus · Southern Cross Line · Southampton – Port Said – Colombo – Sydney
- Calls
- Port Said, Colombo
- via
- Gibraltar and Malta, the Suez Canal and Aden, Fremantle and Melbourne
- the Suez Canal transit
- the Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
- Arrival
- Sydney, Saturday 18 April 1925
- Door to door
- 36 days
- Fare · First Class
- £130
- Fare · Third Class
- £42
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- London → Southampton (by rail, about 2 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Southampton
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- S.S. Achernar · Southern Cross Line · Southampton – Port Said – Colombo – Sydney
- Calls
- Port Said, Colombo
- via
- Gibraltar and Malta, the Suez Canal and Aden, Fremantle and Melbourne
- the Suez Canal transit
- the Suez Canal transit, about 15 h
- Arrival
- Sydney, Thursday 19 October 1933
- Door to door
- 33 days
- Fare · First Class
- £130
- Fare · Tourist Class
- £58
Open the Passage atlas — MGS Toolbox