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Sea Travel To China
My grandfather was stationed in China from about 1898 in Hong Kong to 1903 in Wei-Hai-Wei.
Can anyone tell me how long the journey would have taken in those days?
Can anyone tell me how long the journey would have taken in those days?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.On this 1914 isochronic map, the journey time to China is shown as '20 to 30 days':
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I doubt that there would have been significant changes in journey times over the preceding 15 years. So, putting that together with Dee-M-See's post, a guideline time of 'about a month' might be a reasonable estimate. (The actual journey time would have depended upon the characteristics of the particular class of ship used and other factors too, such as the number of port calls en route to load and unload cargo).
Your grandfather will have got there a lot quicker than his predecessors did though, before the days of steam. 'The Witch of the Wave' (an American clipper) sailed from Canton to Deal in 1852 in what was then regarded as an astoundingly fast journey time of 90 days.
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I doubt that there would have been significant changes in journey times over the preceding 15 years. So, putting that together with Dee-M-See's post, a guideline time of 'about a month' might be a reasonable estimate. (The actual journey time would have depended upon the characteristics of the particular class of ship used and other factors too, such as the number of port calls en route to load and unload cargo).
Your grandfather will have got there a lot quicker than his predecessors did though, before the days of steam. 'The Witch of the Wave' (an American clipper) sailed from Canton to Deal in 1852 in what was then regarded as an astoundingly fast journey time of 90 days.
Thanks for your replies.
As my grandfather was in the Service Corps it is likely that he did not travel on a troop ship in either direction. I know the date he left the UK and when he returned but have not been able to identify the ships he used. I suspect that he was on board ships listed as their first/last port of call rather than final destination/origin.
His father, in the Royal Artillery, was stationed on St Helena - that would have been an interesting journey!
As my grandfather was in the Service Corps it is likely that he did not travel on a troop ship in either direction. I know the date he left the UK and when he returned but have not been able to identify the ships he used. I suspect that he was on board ships listed as their first/last port of call rather than final destination/origin.
His father, in the Royal Artillery, was stationed on St Helena - that would have been an interesting journey!
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