SS Pasteur (1938)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Pasteur.
SS Pasteur was a steam turbine ocean liner 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.[1]
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Builder | Chantiers de l'Atlantique[1] |
Yard number | R8[1] |
Launched | 15 February 1938[1] |
Christened | 15 February 15, 1938 by Madame Pasteur Vallery-Radot, wife of the grandson of Louis Pasteur[1] |
Completed | August 1939[1] |
Commissioned | 1940 |
Decommissioned | 1980 |
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Honours and awards | Croix de Guerre |
Fate | Sank in Indian Ocean in 1980 while being towed to Taiwanese ship breakers.[1] |
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Tonnage | |
Length | 212.4 m (696 ft 10 in)[1] |
Beam | 26.8 m (87 ft 11 in)[1] |
Decks | 11 decks |
Installed power | Three 1,375 KVA generator had an output of 6,600 Kilowatt. |
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Crew | 540 (Pasteur)[1] |
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