Southampton – Yokohama
Southampton to Yokohama by the Oriental & Indian Mail Steamship Company: 42 days at sea in 1925, first class from £156, 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 · Far East
Itinerary
- Southampton → Port Said · 3,000 nautical miles · via Gibraltar and Malta
- Port Said → Colombo · 3,470 nautical miles · via the Suez Canal and Aden
- Colombo → Singapore · 1,580 nautical miles
- Singapore → Hong Kong · 1,440 nautical miles
- Hong Kong → Shanghai · 850 nautical miles
- Shanghai → Yokohama · 1,050 nautical miles
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Friday from Southampton, fortnightly; homeward Thursday from Yokohama.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 11,390 nautical miles
- Duration
- 42 days on R.M.S. Mahanadi
- Fare · First Class
- £156
- Fare · Second Class
- £102
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 11,390 nautical miles
- Duration
- 42 days on R.M.S. Mahanadi
- Fare · First Class
- £156
- Fare · Second Class
- £102
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