French tanker Aragaz bound for Gibraltar according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 2 December 1939

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 2 December 1939 No. 491 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the ships passing the Dardanelles coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for the enemy. An item mentioned the French tanker Aragaz with 6,500 ton petrol underway from Constanta, Romania towards Gibraltar for orders and probably bound for La Pallice and Rouen, France.

Source

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