Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company

ROPiT was established in 1856 and ceased to exist in 1918 due to nationalization after the revolution in Russia.{{in lang|ru}} [http://www.morflot.su/archives/articles1499file.pdf ROPiT and Black sea fleet] International Maritime Journal The Morskoy Flot (Marine Fleet) No.3, 2007 In 1858 the company obtained a 24-year contract for usage of the port of Villafranca Marittima, on the Mediterranean with the Kingdom of Sardinia.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02EFD61131EE34BC4052DFB7678383649FDE ST. PETERSBURG.; The Villafranca Affair--Industrial EnterPrises--Steam Navigation of the Duleper--Russian Peasants Described by a Russian--The Islands of the Nova--Presentation of the New Foreign Ministers, &c.] The New York Times November 18, 1858 from 1863 to 1914 all Russian post offices in the Ottoman Empire were run by the ROPiT.

The company also offered passenger rides. For example, weekly services on the routes "Constantinople-Smyrna-Piraeus-Alexandria, Constantinople-Odessa" - every fortnight the Bulgarian ports of Burgas and Varna were also called in - and "Constantinople–Sevastopol". By 1914 the ROPiT operated a direct line from Odessa via Constantinople to Alexandria and a round trip line and a "Macedonian line" there. Also Black Sea cruises were offered. So changed weekly the "Bulgarian-Anatolian line" from Odessa to Burgas, Constantinople and Trebizond to Batum and the "Anatolian Line" from Constantinople to Batum.

In 1901 it had a fleet of 72 steamships.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E4DD153FE433A25751C2A9649D946097D6CF The Russian Mercantile Marine] The New York Times December 22, 1901 Company stock was listed on Saint-Petersburg Stock Exchange.

• Svet (Свет) (1815)
• Imperator Aleksander II (Император Александр II) (1858)
• Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (1858)
• Oleg (Олег) (1859)
• Lazar (Лазар) (1863)
• Rostov (Ростов) (1867)
• Imperatritsa Maria (Императрица Мария) (1877)
• {{ship|Russian steamboat|Askold||2}} (Аскольд) (1879, since 1886 till 1916){{cite web|title=Askold|url=http://fleetphoto.ru/ship/73159/|publisher=Интернет-сайт «Водный транспорт»|access-date=2019-04-09|language=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715024359/http://fleetphoto.ru/ship/73159/|archive-date=2018-07-15}}
• Chuanpu (Хуанпу) (1882)
• Tsar (Царь) (1883)
• Mechta (Мечта) (1884)
• Luch (Луч) (1886)
• Odessa (Одесса) (1889)
• Veliky Knyaz Aleksei (Великий Князь Алексей) (1890)
• Blesk (Блеск) (1890)
• Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (II) (1890)
• Veliky Knyaz Konstantin (Великий Князь Константин) (III) (1890)
• Svyatoi Nikolai (Святой Николай) (1893)
• Korolyeva Olga (Королева Ольга) (1893)
• Imperator Nikolai II (Император Николай II)
• Chtyr Dag (Чатыр Даг) (1896)
• Diana (Диана) (1899)
• Chikhachyov (Чихачёв)
• Alton (Алтон) (1901)
• Meteor (Метеор) (1901)
• Khersones (Херсонес) (1903)
• Evfrat (Евфрат) (1906) called Euphrate in France (based in Marseille after the beginning of the October Revolution).
• Printsessa Yevgenia Oldenburgskaya (Принцесса Евгения Ольденбургская) (1903)
• Imperator Nikolai I (Император Николай I) (1913)
• Imperatritsa Yekaterina II (Императрица Екатерина II)
• Imperator Aleksander III (Император Александр III)
• Imperator Pyotr Veliky (Император Пётр Великий)
• Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich (Царь Михаил Фёдорович) (1914)
• Tsarevich Aleksey Nikolayevich (Цесаревич Алексей Николаевич) (1914)

[[File:1899ropt-2.png|left|thumb|Rank insignia:

a. Insignia on frock coat collars

b. Insignia on summer jacket, coat and short coat collars

c. Shoulder braids

d. Sleeve insignia

1. Inspector of shipping

2. Captain

3. Chief mate

4. Chief engineer

5. Second mate

6. First engineer

7. Third mate

8. Second engineer]]

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• Black Sea Shipping Company

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