Compagnie des Messageries Transocéaniques
Compagnie des Messageries Transocéaniques (Messageries Transocéaniques) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 7 steamers on 4 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 the Messageries Maritimes: the Far East mail from Marseilles to Yokohama through Port Said, Colombo, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Shanghai, the Levant and Egypt line, and the Indian Ocean line to Mombasa and Madagascar.
- Home port
- Marseilles
- Fares in
- francs
- Tickets in
- French
Routes
- Marseilles – Port Said – Colombo – Singapore – Hong Kong – Shanghai – Yokohama · Far East · Fortnightly
- Marseilles – Alexandria – Port Said – Beirut · Levant · Weekly
- Marseilles – Port Said – Mombasa · East Africa · Every four weeks
- Marseilles – Naples – Piraeus – Istanbul · Levant · Weekly
Fleet
- S/S Garonne · 14 knots · 1912-10 to 1933-12
- S/S Dordogne · 14 knots · from 1921-05, still in commission in 1939
- S/S Durance · 15 knots · from 1926-07, still in commission in 1939
- S/S Isère · 15 knots · from 1931-03, still in commission in 1939
- S/S Vienne · 14 knots · 1910-04 to 1934-05
- S/S Saône · 15 knots · from 1924-09, still in commission in 1939
- S/S Charente · 13 knots · from 1913-01, still in commission in 1939
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