Tasman & Antipodes Steam Navigation Company
Tasman & Antipodes Steam Navigation Company (Tasman Line) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 8 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 the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill & Albion, Southampton to Wellington through the Panama Canal in five weeks, and on the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand across the Tasman Sea. The Union Company also kept the Royal Mail route from Wellington by Rarotonga and Papeete to San Francisco.
- Home port
- Wellington
- Fares in
- pounds sterling
- Tickets in
- English
Routes
- Southampton – Colón (Cristóbal) – Wellington · New Zealand by Panama · Every four weeks
- Sydney – Hobart – Wellington · Tasman Sea · Weekly
- Wellington – San Francisco · South Seas to California · Every four weeks
Fleet
- R.M.S. Rangitoto · 15 knots · 1913-10 to 1936-06
- R.M.S. Aorangi · 16 knots · from 1922-08, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Tongariro · 16 knots · from 1929-04, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Maunganui · 14 knots · from 1911-05, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Wanganui · 15 knots · from 1924-10, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Taiaroa · 15 knots · from 1919-06, still in commission in 1939
- R.M.S. Motuihe · 14 knots · 1919-06 to 1930-08
- R.M.S. Waimarie · 15 knots · from 1930-09, still in commission in 1939
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