Thames & Plate Steamship Company

Thames & Plate Steamship Company (Thames & Plate) is a fictional steamship line of the Passage network, period-plausible, with 4 steamers on 1 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 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's Southampton to Buenos Aires service by Cherbourg, Vigo, Lisbon, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Santos and Montevideo (the "A" ships: Arlanza, Almanzora, Andes).

Home port
Southampton
Fares in
pounds sterling
Tickets in
English

Routes

Fleet

  • R.M.S. Dorset · 16 knots · 1912-03 to 1934-01
  • R.M.S. Devon · 16 knots · from 1921-10, still in commission in 1939
  • R.M.S. Kent · 17 knots · from 1927-05, still in commission in 1939
  • R.M.S. Sussex · 18 knots · from 1932-08, still in commission in 1939

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