I first noticed the Louis Pasteur when I was serving with the RAF in Aden 1952 to 1954 and she was the largest ship calling at Aden in those days. Most of the time the Pasteur was carrying Foreign Legion troops to and from Indo China. As non medical staff at the RAF Hospital I was often called upon to act as a stretcher bearer and it was in this capacity that I went on board sometime in 1953. The troop decks were on the upper decks, compartments with hammocks and a dripping tap on one support. It was a very different ship that I saw in October 1962 when I was working for Thos. Cook & Son Ltd in London and was sent with a group of other travel agents on board the Bremen from offshore Southampton to Bremerhaven and return a few days later. As to be expected the troop decks had all been changed into cabins and I was even treated to a stateroom on the return voyage.
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I first noticed the Louis Pasteur when I was serving with the RAF in Aden 1952 to 1954 and she was the largest ship calling at Aden in those days. Most of the time the Pasteur was carrying Foreign Legion troops to and from Indo China. As non medical staff at the RAF Hospital I was often called upon to act as a stretcher bearer and it was in this capacity that I went on board sometime in 1953. The troop decks were on the upper decks, compartments with hammocks and a dripping tap on one support. It was a very different ship that I saw in October 1962 when I was working for Thos. Cook & Son Ltd in London and was sent with a group of other travel agents on board the Bremen from offshore Southampton to Bremerhaven and return a few days later. As to be expected the troop decks had all been changed into cabins and I was even treated to a stateroom on the return voyage.