My story is set in 1930's England, and the plot point I am working with, is the realization that a character (villain) is intending to run off and disappear. Our Intrepid Sleuth finds evidence that Villain has booked passage overseas. The exact route and destination are not so important ( Read more... )

How long would it likely take?

I have two characters who will be taking the ferry between Dover and Calais in early 1958, but I can't find any information on how long a crossing would have taken at that time. The Guardian helpfully informs me that the first hovercraft crossing occurred in 1959 and took 2 hours and 3 minutes, so I'm assuming a ( Read more... )

Here's the situation: I am trying to get my characters from Dover, Kent (of white cliffs fame) across the English Channel to France. Setting is late 19th century, but for various reasons, the ferries/mail packets are not an option. My working assumption is that they can find a fisherman with a boat that can make the crossing if they offer him ( Read more... )

This set of queries represents well over 24 hours' worth of Googling, Wikipedia-ing, and inquiring of others. It condenses into three main items:

( (A) Boat travel: A trip from NJ, USA to the island of Bonaire )

Oh, god, but my Google-fu has failed me, and my search through the tags of this splendiferous comm has been fruitless. Even Google Advanced searching hasn't yielded anything. Perhaps you good gentles can help me with a few questions ( Read more... )

Hi there! I've got some characters taking a trip by boat from France to England (think cargo type ship) during rough seas and I'm trying to estimate how long it would have taken. I've tried searching by google with things like '16th century boat trip france to england' but I mostly come up with modern day fair trips insteqad of detailed information ( Read more... )

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I'm researching for a poem in which I'm hoping I can use the imagery of a ship stuck in the doldrums as an extended metaphor. I'd like to know how long a sailing ship might have been stuck; if there would have been any small movements or a complete standstill; have there been disasters where crews died from starvation/dehydration? Also, is it ( Read more... )

I am writing a short story, and a small detail that I need is how long it took a ship (typically one of the larger ships during the 1600s) to travel from Nagasaki to Lisbon using this trade route.

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I'm basically going to be repeating question no. 3 on this entry from March 2008, for which I apologize, but the comments didn't really provide any satisfactory answers. It's been twenty-some years since then, though ( Read more... )