Black Sea Shipping Company
Black Sea Shipping Company is a Ukrainian shipping company based in Kyiv.
Funnels of the Black Sea Shipping Co. cargo ships during Soviet period were the same as the funnel of cargo ship "Alexandr Saveliev". Some vessels, mostly passenger ships, had the same red stripe and red emblem on the white color funnels.
The tombstone of the best Leader of Black Sea Shipping Company Aleksey Danchenko on the Second Christian Cemetery in Odesa.
The tombstones of Stanislav Lukiyanchenko (center) on the Second Christian Cemetery in Odesa.
USS West Bridge (ID-2888) was a Design 1013 cargo ship in the United States Navy during World War I. She was begun as War Topaz for the British Government but was completed as West Bridge. After being decommissioned from the Navy, the ship returned to civilian service as West Bridge, but was renamed Barbara Cates, and Pan Gulf over the course of her commercial career under American registry.
West Bridge in dazzle camouflage shortly before completion in May 1918
Torpedo damage to USS West Bridge seen in a French drydock c. 1918. One of the ship's boilers is visible in the left rear.
SS Pan Gulf sailed in 18 transatlantic convoys, like this typical one, seen in 1942.