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Traveling by sea


skenderax

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Hi guys,

I need Your help. I starting adventure in which in the second part would be necessarily to travel from England to India and it is year 1890. How long it will take? And how many the travel will cost?

Can You give me a hint or link to some page?

S.

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  • 2 months later...

On a tangent, from studying American history with my kids recently, a clipper ship (sailing, 1840s through early 1870s) could get knots equivalent to 18-20 mph -- as fast as a modern petroleum supertanker. A clipper ship could make it from New York to California (around the tip of South America, Panama Canal doesn't yet exist) or from America to China in less than 100 days, just slightly more than three months. Not bad for a sailing vessel of the period.

Hmmm, 1870s. Cthulhu vs. Captain Nemo, anyone? ;D

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