Paris to Dakar
How long did it take to travel from Paris to Dakar in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 16 days door to door, £49 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
- Paris → Cherbourg (by rail, about 5 h 30, estimate); Southampton → Liverpool (by rail, about 6 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Cherbourg
- Sailing
- Tuesday 17 March 1925
- Steamer
- R.M.S. Tamar · Albion Line · Southampton – Cherbourg – New York
- Calls
- Liverpool
- via
- Las Palmas
- Arrival
- Dakar, Thursday 2 April 1925
- Door to door
- 16 days
- Fare · First Class
- £49
- Fare · Second Class
- £30 10s.
Transfer at Liverpool to the Guinea Coast Line
The journey in 1933
- Embarkation
- Paris
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- Cormoran · Aéropostale du Sud · Paris – Dakar
- via
- Toulouse, Casablanca et Agadir
- Arrival
- Dakar, Sunday 17 September 1933
- Door to door
- 1 days
- Fare · Single class
- 11 100 fr.
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