Bombay – Durban

Bombay to Durban by the Oriental & Indian Mail Steamship Company: 16 days at sea in 1925, first class from £90, sailing Monday from Bombay, 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 · East Africa

Itinerary

  • BombayMombasa · 2,500 nautical miles · via the Seychelles
  • MombasaDurban · 1,860 nautical miles · via Zanzibar, Beira and Lourenço Marques

Sailings

Monday from Bombay, fortnightly; homeward Tuesday from Durban.

Steamers

Classes sold

  • 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class

The whole route in 1925

Distance
4,360 nautical miles
Duration
16 days on R.M.S. Kistna
Fare · First Class
£90
Fare · Second Class
£57 10s.

The whole route in 1933

Distance
4,360 nautical miles
Duration
16 days on R.M.S. Kistna
Fare · First Class
£90
Fare · Second Class
£57 10s.

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