United States Navigation Company

United States Navigation Company was founded by Edward Carl Wilhelm Oelsner (1888–1973) in New York City in 1917.

Oelsner was a Prussian-born German (born in Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland), who came to America in 1908.

Next Oelsner entered into a joint venture with Biehl & Company chartering ships that serviced the Gulf of Mexico ports.

[4][5][6] United States Navigation Company was a US broker for a number of shipping lines:[7] United States Navigation Co. and the Marine Services Company Limited founded a subsidiary, the Canada South Africa Line of Montreal, Canada in 1945.

[8] United States Navigation Company fleet of ships that were used to help the World War II effort.