Southampton – Cape Town
Southampton to Cape Town by the Tafelberg & Southern Mail Steamship Company: 15 days at sea in 1925, first class from £86 10s., sailing Thursday from Southampton, 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.
Tafelberg Mail · South Africa
Itinerary
- Southampton → Funchal · 1,300 nautical miles
- Funchal → Cape Town · 4,670 nautical miles · via Las Palmas and St Helena
Sailings
Thursday from Southampton, weekly; homeward Friday from Cape Town.
Steamers
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1930: First Class, Second Class, Third Class
- 1931 to 1939: First Class, Tourist Class, Third Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 5,970 nautical miles
- Duration
- 15 days on R.M.S. Stellenbosch
- Fare · First Class
- £86 10s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £55
- Fare · Third Class
- £25 10s.
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 5,970 nautical miles
- Duration
- 15 days on R.M.S. Stellenbosch
- Fare · First Class
- £86 10s.
- Fare · Tourist Class
- £37
- Fare · Third Class
- £25 10s.
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