SS Pasteur was a steam turbine ocean liner built for Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique.

[1] In 1933 Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique's modern 42,512 GRT flagship L'Atlantique was gutted by fire after only two years in service.

[3] With the settlement, her owners ordered Pasteur as a smaller but faster replacement ship to carry passengers and freight on their South Atlantic routes.

She was also designed to compete with a new British ship, RMS Andes, which Harland and Wolff was building for Royal Mail Lines.

A fire in March 1939 delayed her fitting out and she was not completed until August 1939, just before World War II broke out.

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.

In 1943, she visited Freetown, Cape Town, Durban, Aden and Port Tewfik, and then back to the Clyde and Halifax.

In 1970, NDL merged with Hamburg America Line to form the large shipping company, Hapag Lloyd.

[1][4] After another refit, which changed her tonnage to 23,801 tons, Regina became the flagship of Chandris Cruises and inaugurated her Mediterranean service, calling at Limassol for the first time on May 19 and taking passengers from Cyprus to Beirut, Haifa, Heraklion, Piraeus, Katakolon, Corfu, Dubrovnik and Venice.

She cruised the world until 1974, when she was laid up in Piraeus because of rising fuel costs and the loss of emigration charters to Australia.

On June 8th 1980 While being towed by the Panamanian tug Sumatra to Taiwanese ship breakers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, she rolled over onto her port side and sank stern first in the Indian Ocean that same year.

The pair were not fired after bringing a live cheetah on board because the captain realized the show was enjoyed by the tourists who were guests on the ship.