Amsterdam – Batavia
Amsterdam to Batavia by the Oranje-Indische Stoomvaart Maatschappij: 27 days at sea in 1925, first class from ƒ 1331, sailing Wednesday from Amsterdam, 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.
Oranje-Indië Line · East Indies
Itinerary
- Amsterdam → Southampton · 280 nautical miles
- Southampton → Genoa · 1,900 nautical miles · via Gibraltar
- Genoa → Port Said · 1,400 nautical miles
- Port Said → Colombo · 3,470 nautical miles · via the Suez Canal and Aden
- Colombo → Batavia · 1,780 nautical miles · via Sabang
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Wednesday from Amsterdam, fortnightly; homeward Wednesday from Batavia.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class, Third Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 8,830 nautical miles
- Duration
- 27 days on M.S. Prins Maurits
- Fare · First Class
- ƒ 1331
- Fare · Second Class
- ƒ 865
- Fare · Third Class
- ƒ 426
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 8,830 nautical miles
- Duration
- 27 days on M.S. Prins Maurits
- Fare · First Class
- ƒ 913
- Fare · Second Class
- ƒ 593
- Fare · Third Class
- ƒ 292
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