Italian steamship Quirinale brought by British destroyer into Malta 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. referred the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland to a report of the German general consul at Izmir. In the week of 19-25 November was the Italian steamship Quirinale active on the shipping lane Izmir, Turkey-Piraeus, Greece within the Turkish territorial waters halted by a British destroyer and brought into Malta where she on 28 November still was lying.

Source

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