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
- Bombay → Mombasa · 2,500 nautical miles · via the Seychelles
- Mombasa → Durban · 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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