New York to Bombay
How long did it take to travel from New York to Bombay in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 28 days door to door, $906 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 York
- Sailing
- Thursday 12 March 1925
- Steamer
- S.S. Hudson · Columbia Line · New York – Cherbourg – Southampton – Hamburg
- Calls
- Cherbourg, Southampton, Marseilles, Port Said
- via
- Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and Aden
- the Suez Canal transit
- the Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
- Arrival
- Bombay, Thursday 9 April 1925
- Door to door
- 28 days
- Fare · First Class
- $906
- Fare · Second Class
- $580
Transfer at Southampton to the O. & I. Mail
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Cherbourg → Marseilles (by rail, about 18 h, estimate); Delhi → Bombay (by rail, about 24 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- New York
- Sailing
- Thursday 14 September 1933
- Steamer
- S.S. Delaware · Columbia Line · New York – Cherbourg – Southampton – Hamburg
- Calls
- Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, Baghdad, Karachi, Calcutta
- Night stops
- Naples, Alexandria, Baghdad, Karachi
- via
- Athens, Gaza, Basra and Jask, Jodhpur and Allahabad
- Arrival
- Bombay, Sunday 1 October 1933
- Door to door
- 17 days
- Fare · Single class
- $763
Transfer at Marseilles to the Oranje Air Transfer at Calcutta to the Empire Air Routes
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