The ship was commissioned in 1963 by Gazocéan, the shipping company of the Parisian parent company Technigaz, and built in 1963/64 by the Ateliers Duchesne et Bossière shipyard in Le Havre. The Pythagore was designed as an experimental ship and the first of its kind whose gas tanks were built according to the membrane principle that is still used today. The basis of the ship design formed a double hull - coaster type of the yard, in which two cargo holds two 360 and 270 cubic meter cubic gas tanks were used. The transport temperature was between −104 ° C and −160 ° C, depending on the type of gas to be transported. The tank system was mainly designed for the transport of natural gas and ethylene, but other gases such as propylene, butane or butane could also be used. The ship was used as a gas tanker until 1975, after which it was sold to Senegal, where it is still in service today as a fish transporter for the Dakar Peche shipping company.
literature
Economic Tank Construction Claimed for New LPG Tanker in The Motor Ship No. 524, Vol. 44, March 1964, pp. 566/67
