New Orleans to Colón (Cristóbal)
How long did it take to travel from New Orleans to Colón (Cristóbal) in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 6 days door to door, $85 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
- Embarkation
- New Orleans
- Sailing
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- S.S. Sirius · Gulf & Antilles · New Orleans – Havana – Kingston – Colón (Cristóbal)
- Calls
- Havana, Kingston
- Arrival
- Colón (Cristóbal), Friday 20 March 1925
- Door to door
- 6 days
- Fare · First Class
- $85
- Fare · Second Class
- $53
The journey in 1933
- Embarkation
- New Orleans
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- S.S. Quetzal · Gulf & Antilles · New Orleans – Havana – Kingston – Colón (Cristóbal)
- Calls
- Havana, Kingston
- Night stops
- Kingston
- via
- Cienfuegos, Barranquilla
- Arrival
- Colón (Cristóbal), Tuesday 19 September 1933
- Door to door
- 3 days
- Fare · Single class
- $382
Transfer at Havana to the Pan-Pacific
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