Empire Air Routes Limited
Empire Air Routes Limited (Empire Air Routes) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 6 steamers on 3 routes.
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.
Historical model
Modelled on Imperial Airways: the India route of 1929 from Croydon to Karachi in seven days with night stops, extended to Calcutta, Rangoon and Singapore in 1933, and the Africa route of 1932 from Cairo by Khartoum and Nairobi to Johannesburg and Cape Town, flying by day only.
- Home port
- London
- Fares in
- pounds sterling
- Tickets in
- English
Routes
- London – Paris – Genoa – Naples – Piraeus – Alexandria – Baghdad – Basra – Karachi · Empire air routes · Weekly
- Karachi – Delhi – Calcutta – Rangoon – Singapore · Empire air routes · Weekly
- Alexandria – Cairo – Khartoum – Nairobi – Johannesburg – Cape Town · Africa by air · Weekly
Fleet
- City of Glasgow · 81 knots · from 1929-04, still in commission in 1939
- City of Birmingham · 81 knots · from 1929-04, still in commission in 1939
- Hannibal · 86 knots · from 1931-06, still in commission in 1939
- Horsa · 86 knots · from 1931-06, still in commission in 1939
- Atalanta · 113 knots · from 1932-09, still in commission in 1939
- Scylla · 92 knots · from 1934-03, still in commission in 1939
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