PASTEUR  1966
       
RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE                                                                                                                                                                                                                            THE OCEAN LINERS

 

Welcome to our Pasteur website celebrating this remarkable ship. She was originally intended as the Australien and was to serve on the Marseilles to Australia route. The Pasteur was the last and largest ship built for Messageries Maritimes and reliably served on their South America route from November 1966 until the 16th September 1976.

She was laid down at the Chantiers de France Gironde at Dunkirk on the 28th April 1963. But before her launch it was decided to switch her to the South American route and rename her Pasteur. She was launched on the 2nd June 1966 at Dunkirk. She was delivered to MM on the 28th October 1966. She also ended the 121 year history of Messageries Maritimes with her final voyage in 1976.

This website aims to record the history of this fine French ocean liner and act as a virtual home to honour and commemorate this fine ship. We hope you enjoy this website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.


   

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Her Regular Service Route: France to South America

Hamburg - Anvers (outwards) - Dunkirk (homewards) - Le Havre - Vigo - Lisbon - Rio de Janiero - Santos - Montevideo - Buenos Aires.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES (MM)

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