Southampton – Sydney
Southampton to Sydney by the Southern Cross Steam Navigation Company: 35 days at sea in 1925, first class from £130, sailing Saturday 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.
Southern Cross Line · Australia
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 → Sydney · 5,520 nautical miles · via Fremantle and Melbourne
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Saturday from Southampton, fortnightly; homeward Wednesday from Sydney.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1930: First Class, Third Class
- 1931 to 1939: First Class, Tourist Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 11,990 nautical miles
- Duration
- 35 days on S.S. Canopus
- Fare · First Class
- £130
- Fare · Third Class
- £42
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 11,990 nautical miles
- Duration
- 33 days on S.S. Achernar
- Fare · First Class
- £130
- Fare · Tourist Class
- £58
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