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SS Pasteur (1939)

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SS Pasteur
History
Name:
  • Pasteur (1939–57)
  • Bremen (1957–72)
  • Regina Magna (1972–77)
  • Saudiphil I (1977–80)
  • Filipinas Saudi I (1980)
Namesake:
Owner:
  • Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique (1938–40)
  • UK Government (1940–46)
  • Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique (1946–57)
  • Norddeutscher Lloyd (1957–72)
  • Chandris Cruises (1972–77)
  • Philippine Singapore Ports Corporation (1977–80)
  • Philsimport International (1980)
Operator:
  • Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique (1938–40)
  • Cunard-White Star Line (1940–46)
  • Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique (1946–56)
  • Norddeutscher Lloyd (1957–72)
  • Chandris Cruises (1972–77)
  • Philippine Singapore Ports Corporation (1977–80)
  • Philsimport International (1980)
Port of registry:
  • France Bordeaux (1938–40)
  • United Kingdom Liverpool (1940–46)
  • France France (1946–57)
  • West Germany West Germany (1957–72)
  • Greece Greece (1972–77)
  • Saudi Arabia Jeddah (1977–80)
  • Philippines Philippines (1980)
Route:
Builder: Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Yard number: R8
Launched: 15 February 1938
Christened: February 15, 1938 by Madame Pasteur Vallery-Radot, wife of the grandson of Louis Pasteur
Completed: August, 1939
Commissioned: 1940
Decommissioned: 1980
Out of service:
  • 1956–57
  • 1974
Refit:
  • 1957–59
  • 1965–66
  • 1972
Identification:
  • UK Official Number 166306 (1940–46)
  • Code Letters FNDC (1938–40)
  • ICS Foxtrot.svgICS November.svgICS Delta.svgICS Charlie.svg
  • Code Letters GNDW (1940–46)
  • ICS Golf.svgICS November.svgICS Delta.svgICS Whiskey.svg
Honours and
awards:		 Croix de Guerre
Fate: Sank in Indian Ocean in 1980 while being towed to Taiwanese ship breakers.
General characteristics
Type:
  • Ocean liner (1939-40
  • Troopship and hospital ship (1940–45)
  • Troopship (1945–46)
  • Ocean liner and cruise ship (1956–72)
  • Cruise ship (1972–74)
  • Accommodation ship (1974–77)
  • Floating hotel (1977–80)
Tonnage:
  • 29,253 GRT (Pasteur)
  • 32,336 GRT (Bremen, 1957)
  • 32,360 GRT (Bremen, 1966)
  • 23,801 GRT (Regina Magna)
Length: 212.4 m (696 ft 10 in)
Beam: 26.8 m (87 ft 11 in)
Decks: 11 decks
Installed power: Three 1,375 KVA generator had an output of 6,600 Kilowatt.
Propulsion:
  • Strongest power could be generated: 50,000 HP, which powered quadruple propellerss (Pasteur)
  • 53,000 HP powering four propellers (Bremen)
Speed:
  • Top speed: 26 knots (48 km/h)
  • Service speed: 22 knots (41 km/h) (Pasteur)
  • 26 knots
  • Service speed: 23 knots (43 km/h) (Bremen)
Capacity:
  • 751 passengers: 1,122, 287, or 275 in 1st class; 126 in 2nd class; 338 in 3rd class (Pasteur)
  • Load-carrying capacity: 8,700 tdw Maximum passenger capacity: 14,000 (Bremen)
Crew: 540 (Pasteur)

SS Pasteur was a turbine steam ship built for Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. She later sailed as Bremen for Norddeutscher Lloyd. In the course of her career, she sailed for 41 years under four names and six countries' flags.

In 1936 the French shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique planned to order a new ship to carry passengers and freight on their South Atlantic routes. Her main competition was the German liner Cap Arcona owned by the Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft. She was designed also to equal a new UK ship, RMS Andes, that Harland and Wolff was building for Royal Mail Lines.

Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France began building Pasteur in 1938. On 15 February that year she was christened Pasteur after the scientist Louis Pasteur. A fire in March 1939 delayed her fitting out and she was not completed until August 1939, just before World War II broke out.

Pasteur was 29,253 gross tons. She was 212.4 m long and 26.8 m wide. She had 11 decks and possessed extensive loading spaces. She was designed to carry 751 passengers. She could develop about 50,000 HP and speeds up to 26 Knots, but her usual service speed was around 22 knots, making her the third fastest ship of her time. Her draft was 9.3 m. She had four propellers.

The outbreak of World War II delayed the deployment of Pasteur, and she was laid up in Saint-Nazaire in France. In 1940 she was commissioned to carry 200 tons of gold reserves from Brest, France to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her official maiden voyage from Bordeaux to Buenos Aires was cancelled due to the outbreak of war. After the fall of France, she was taken over by the Great Britain government and placed under Cunard-White Star management. She was used as a troop transport and military hospital ship between Canada, South Africa, Australia and South America, and transported around 300,000 soldiers. She was sometimes called HMTS Pasteur.


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