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SS Pasteur/TS Bremen - Classic Liners (Paperback)
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SS Pasteur/TS Bremen - Classic Liners (Paperback)
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List price R619
Loot Price R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
You Save R68 (11%)
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In the post-war era, TS Bremen was one of the most popular liners
operating across the Atlantic - but she had a remarkable wartime
history. Built for the French as the SS Pasteur, in 1940 she made a
dramatic escape in the face of invasion, carrying 200 tons of
French gold bullion reserves to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Requisitioned
by the British, she became a hospital troopship and played a major
support role in the Battle of El Alamein. Indeed, Charles de Gaulle
claimed that Pasteur's contribution 'significantly helped bring . .
. Hitler to his ultimate end'. Her sale in 1956 to North German
Lloyd Line as their final flagship - refitted and renamed Bremen -
sparked protest in France, but Bremen sailed on unperturbed, now
the pride of the German nation. Though she had been celebrated as
one of the safest liners ever built, Filipinas Saudi 1, as she was
then known, sank in 1980 in the Indian Ocean. It was a sad ending
to a life filled with glamour, excitement and danger. Here Andrew
Britton tells the story of this distinguished and much-loved vessel
in intimate and colourful detail.
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