British steamship Eocene arrived with Polish gold on board in Turkey according to a letter of the German naval attaché dated 26 September 1939

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 26 September 1939 No. 60g.Kdos reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine at Berlint the British steamship Eocene as earlier reported [coming from Constanza, Romania] unloaded at Haidarpaşa 10 casks of gold of the Polish State Bank and from there further transported to Syria. She was still lying in the harbour.(1)

Note

1. On his weblog Zoltán Ginelli wrote on 21-08-2 12 the logpost How the Polish gold train got stuck in French Africa during WWII. From [French] Syria the gold went to [French] Lebanon, next stop at Dakar in Senegal and Fort Kayes, Mali and later back to Dakar and in 1944 handed over to Polish commission.

Source

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