Russian merchant ship m.s. Svanetia bound for Greece according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 24 February 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 24 February 1940 No. 774 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the neutral ships passing Istanbul coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for or chartered by the enemy. An item reported on 71 February the Russian merchant ship m.s. Svanetia of the Black Sea States Steamship Company, Odessa, Ukraine transporting around 120 Greek emigrants to Piraeus, Greece.

Source

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