Thursday, February 26, 2015

the 'Bremen' from 1938/1959

Four screw turbine ship. 32,335 gross register tons, length: 212 metres, breadth: 27.5 metres, speed: 23.5 knots, passengers: 1,122.  Flagship of Norddeustche Lloyd, biggest and fastest German passenger ship.
This was built in 1938 by Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire in France, named Pasteur. She was purchased from Cie. de Navigation Sud-Atlantique in 1959, extensively rebuilt and renamed Bremen, In 1970 the ownership became Hapag-Lloyd after the merger of NDL and HAPAG. In 1972 the ship was sold to Chandris Lines, Piraeus, renamed Regina Magna,  Eventually she sank while being towed to scrappers in 1980.

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