Tafelberg & Southern Mail Steamship Company
Tafelberg & Southern Mail Steamship Company (Tafelberg Mail) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 8 steamers on 2 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 Union-Castle Line's weekly mail service from Southampton to Cape Town by Madeira, sailing every Thursday at four o'clock, 17 days to the Cape. Its Round Africa service, opened in 1922, sailed by the Mediterranean, Suez, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Beira and Durban to Cape Town, and the reverse.
- Home port
- Southampton
- Fares in
- pounds sterling
- Tickets in
- English
Routes
- Southampton – Funchal – Cape Town · South Africa · Weekly
- Southampton – Marseilles – Genoa – Port Said – Mombasa – Durban – Cape Town · South Africa · Every four weeks
Fleet
- R.M.S. Stellenbosch · 17 knots · 1911-04 to 1934-06
- R.M.S. Drakenstein · 18 knots · from 1921-11, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Outeniqua · 18 knots · from 1926-03, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Winterhoek · 19 knots · from 1931-09, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Swartberg · 14 knots · from 1919-06, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Winterberg · 14 knots · 1921-06 to 1934-12
- R.M.S. Langeberg · 15 knots · from 1925-06, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Cederberg · 15 knots · from 1929-04, still in commission in 1939
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