List of ships List of current ships •
Volzhskiy class cargo ship: • Aleksandr Lebed (received from Kama Shipping in 2014) •
Volgo-Don class cargo ship: • Catharine (received from unknown in 2002) • Chalsi (received from Volga Shipping in 2001) • Vasiliy Tatischev (received from Kama Shipping in 2014) •
Chelsea class cargo ship: (all built in
Kherson based on Volgo-Don class cargo ships) • Chelsea-1 (received from Malta in 2014) • Chelsea-2 (2006) • Chelsea-3 (2006) • Chelsea-4 (2007) • Chelsea-5 (2007) • Chelsea-6 (2008) • Chelsea-7 (2010) •
Ganz class floating cranes: (built in
Budapest, Hungary) • Stryzh (1997)
List of ships used with Saluta Shipping In association with Kama Shipping •
Volgo-Don class cargo ship: • Corvus (received from unknown in 2011) • Evgenia Z (received from unknown in 2011) • Nikolay Meshkov (received from Cyprus in 2011)
List of former ships During the best period of this company, which was the 1970s to the first part of the 1980s, it had more than 250 sea going ships. The company had the following ships, (with description in brackets mentioning the years of a ship with the Black Sea Shipping Company):
Passengers ships •
Ex. Nazi Germany passenger ships which were received by the Soviet Union as per the Allies Agreement: •
Admiral Nakhimov (1954-1986) •
Admiral Ushakov (1946-1975) •
Rossia (7 Feb, 1946 — 1985) •
Pobeda (18 Feb, 1946 — end of 1970s) •
Ukraina •
Other purchased passenger ships: •
Pyotr Velikiy, previously Polish , previously German
Duala •
Ivan Franko class passenger ships: •
MS Shota Rustaveli •
MS Ivan Franko •
Belorussiya-class cruiseferry: •
MS Belorussiya •
MS Gruziya (1975—1996) •
Azeibarzhan (1975-1996)
Cargo ships •
Коммунист (1922 — 14.01.1942), ex. UK ship
Regimen (built in 1891). From 14.01.1942 the ship was included in
Black Sea Naval Force fleet and was lost on 24.02.1942, due to
World War II. •
Передовик (English:
Peredovik) (1939-1951). The ship was built in the Soviet Union in 1939, transferred in 1951 to the
Far East Shipping Company. •
Ex. Germany cargo ships which were taken by Soviet Union as per the Alias Agreement: •
Belorussia-class cargo ships or
West-class. Total 11 general cargo ships of this class were transferred from
Far East Shipping Company to Black Sea Shipping Company: •
Белоруссия (6 June 1947 — 28 Nov, 1960) •
Восток (5 July 1948 — 26 Sept, 1966) •
Лермонтов (end of 1940's — 12 Jan, 1966) •
Плеханов (21 Sept, 1949 — 9 March 1950) •
Тарас Шевченко (21 Sept, 1949 — 7 March 1963) •
Вторая Пятилетка (6 Feb, 1950 — 23 March 1967) •
Иркутск (9 March 1950 — 27 May 1966) •
Караганда (9 March 1950 — 1967). This ship was used on the line between Black Sea Soviet ports and India ports. •
Кавказ (11 June 1950 — 2 March 1955) •
Омск (ex. Капитан Вислобоков) (11 June 1950 — 3 Feb, 1959) •
Аргунь, ex. US ship
West Modus from 1919 to 1942, (12 April 1951 — 11 April 1962). •
Kolomna-class cargo ships, - total 2 ships of this class ships were in Black Sea Shipping Company: •
Nezhin •
Smela •
Divnogorsk-class cargo ships • SS Divnogorsk (1961) • SS Mednogorsk (1961) •
Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships, - total 25 ships •
SS Leninsky Komsomol (1959) •
SS Metallurg Baykov (1960) •
SS Fizik Kurchatov •
SS Metallurg Anosov •
SS Bratstvo (1963) • and others •
Slavyansk-class cargo ships or
Slanyanye-class cargo ships were built in Soviet Union: • Slanyansk •
Sarny •
Liberty class cargo ships. In addition to 40
Liberty ships purchased by the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during
World War II. 10 vessels of this type were purchased for the Black Sea State Shipping Company from Europe (mainly in Italy) in 1963: •
Алатау •
Авача •
Бештау •
Дарьял (1963-1977),ех.
George Whitefield which was built at the "Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation" shipyard in 1943 and sold to Norway in 1947 and changed name to
Wilford, then sold to Italy in 1957 and changed name to
Orata. The ship was purchased by Soviet Union in 1963 and scrapped in 1977. •
Карпаты •
Хибины •
Машук •
Саяны •
Сихотэ-Алинь •
Малахов Курган •
Kommunist-class cargo ships were built in East Germany: •
Fridrikh Engels •
Rosa Luksemburg •
Ernst Telman (Russian:
Эрнст Тельман) (1970—1997), IMO 7023269 •
Toyvo Antikaynen Oil tanker •
Apsheron-class, former
Antarctica scientific research ship built in
Copenhagen,
Denmark; refit as oil tanker •
Tuapse (1953-1954), illegally
seized by
Republic of China Navy of the
Kuomintang regime ==See also==