Marseilles – Mombasa
Marseilles to Mombasa by the Compagnie des Messageries Transocéaniques: 17 days at sea in 1925, first class from 8 400 fr., sailing Wednesday from Marseilles, every four weeks.
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.
Messageries Transocéaniques · East Africa
Itinerary
- Marseilles → Port Said · 1,500 nautical miles
- Port Said → Mombasa · 3,340 nautical miles · via the Suez Canal and Aden
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Wednesday from Marseilles, every four weeks; homeward Friday from Mombasa.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 4,840 nautical miles
- Duration
- 17 days on S/S Charente
- Fare · First Class
- 8 400 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 5 400 fr.
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 4,840 nautical miles
- Duration
- 16 days on S/S Charente
- Fare · First Class
- 6 950 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 4 450 fr.
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