French tanker Beauce underway from Romania towards Tunisia according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 17 February 1940 No. 801 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 25 February the French armed tanker Beauce loaded with 5,640 ton petrol and 985 ton petroleum underway from Constanta, Romania towards Tunis, Tunisia.

Source

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