Passchendaele
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IMDB rating: 7.30 Plot: Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The “Fighting Tenth” with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle. |
Actors: Arsenault Alex,Bellows Gil,Bland Don,Brown David,Carey Tom,Cermak Jason,Cowie Ryan,Crockett Ross,Dinicol Joe,Frechette Jesse,Greyeyes Michael,Gross Paul,Harrington Adam,Haysom David,Ippolito Chris,Drama,History,War,
How long would a ship from Canada to Europe take to ship soldiers in WW1?
How many months? the movie ‘Passchendaele’ gives the idea that it took about 3 months, but i would think it would take longer.
About a week, or a little longer.
By 1914 they had the first generation of 30-knot megaliners. One of these can do the trip in about 5 days (unless she hits an iceberg) and the slower boats - the 10-day boats, mainly luxury liners of the previous generation, now downgraded - were still around, and of course cheaper.
A troopship would do much the same speed as an older liner; in fact most of them were converted liners. They tended to do their fastest speed most of the way to dodge submarines. So start from 10 days, and reckon a little faster if there was a hurry, or a little slower in case of foul weather or reports of ice.
3 months implies an average day’s run of around 30 miles. This is ridiculous, and would have been ridiculous most of the time in the age of sail. You could row a ship’s boat faster than that.
Hope this helps.
Michael B | Oct 10, 2009
