British merchant steamship Tintern Abbey transporting war stores towards Turkey according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 12 January 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 12 January 1940 No. 632g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the ships passing Istanbul coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for or chartered by the enemy. An item mentioned the British merchant steamship Tintern Abbey. Armed with 1 gun at the stern. Dark grey painted. Except for superstructures and bridge which were brown. She transported about 1,200 ton of war stores from England and Liverpool, England to Haiderpascha and Istanbul.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for Turkey, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.