Southampton – Cape Town
Southampton to Cape Town by the Tafelberg & Southern Mail Steamship Company: 34 days at sea in 1925, first class from £149 10s., sailing Thursday from Southampton, every four weeks.
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 → Marseilles · 1,850 nautical miles · via Gibraltar
- Marseilles → Genoa · 200 nautical miles
- Genoa → Port Said · 1,530 nautical miles
- Port Said → Mombasa · 3,060 nautical miles · via the Suez Canal, Port Sudan and Aden
- Mombasa → Durban · 1,860 nautical miles · via Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Beira and Lourenço Marques
- Durban → Cape Town · 820 nautical miles · via East London and Port Elizabeth
The Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
Sailings
Thursday from Southampton, every four weeks; 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
- 9,320 nautical miles
- Duration
- 34 days on R.M.S. Swartberg
- Fare · First Class
- £149 10s.
- Fare · Second Class
- £97 10s.
- Fare · Third Class
- £48 10s.
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 9,320 nautical miles
- Duration
- 33 days on R.M.S. Swartberg
- Fare · First Class
- £149 10s.
- Fare · Tourist Class
- £66 10s.
- Fare · Third Class
- £48 10s.
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