British merchant steamship Lord Byron bound for England according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 12 January 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul,  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 on 8 January the British merchant steamship Lord Byron loaded with 7,000 ton wheat bound for London, England.

Source

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