Marseilles – Istanbul
Marseilles to Istanbul by the Compagnie des Messageries Transocéaniques: 5 days at sea in 1925, first class from 1 800 fr., sailing Thursday from Marseilles, weekly.
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 · Levant
Itinerary
- Marseilles → Naples · 470 nautical miles
- Naples → Piraeus · 620 nautical miles · via the Strait of Messina
- Piraeus → Istanbul · 350 nautical miles · via the Dardanelles
Sailings
Thursday from Marseilles, weekly; homeward Tuesday from Istanbul.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class, Third Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 1,440 nautical miles
- Duration
- 5 days on S/S Vienne
- Fare · First Class
- 1 800 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 1 120 fr.
- Fare · Third Class
- 670 fr.
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 1,440 nautical miles
- Duration
- 5 days on S/S Vienne
- Fare · First Class
- 1 480 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 920 fr.
- Fare · Third Class
- 550 fr.
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