Southampton – Calcutta
Southampton to Calcutta by the Oriental & Indian Mail Steamship Company: 26 days at sea in 1925, first class from £120, sailing Friday from Southampton, fortnightly.
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.
O. & I. Mail · Indian Mail
Itinerary
- Southampton → Marseilles · 1,850 nautical miles · via Gibraltar
- Marseilles → Port Said · 1,500 nautical miles
- Port Said → Colombo · 3,470 nautical miles · via the Suez Canal and Aden
- Colombo → Calcutta · 1,350 nautical miles · via Madras
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Friday from Southampton, fortnightly; homeward Saturday from Calcutta.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 8,170 nautical miles
- Duration
- 26 days on R.M.S. Damodar
- Fare · First Class
- £120
- Fare · Second Class
- £78
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 8,170 nautical miles
- Duration
- 25 days on R.M.S. Damodar
- Fare · First Class
- £120
- Fare · Second Class
- £78
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