Bombay – Basra
Bombay to Basra by the Oriental & Indian Mail Steamship Company: 6 days at sea in 1925, first class from £19 5s., sailing Thursday from Bombay, 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.
O. & I. Mail · Indian Mail
Itinerary
- Bombay → Karachi · 500 nautical miles
- Karachi → Basra · 1,300 nautical miles · via Muscat and Bushire
Sailings
Thursday from Bombay, weekly; homeward Monday from Basra.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 1,800 nautical miles
- Duration
- 6 days on R.M.S. Jhelum
- Fare · First Class
- £19 5s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £12
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 1,800 nautical miles
- Duration
- 6 days on R.M.S. Jhelum
- Fare · First Class
- £19 5s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £12
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