Spanish passenger steamship Marqués de Comillas with large number of refugees underway towards New York, USA in 1940

In his letter dated Lisbon dated 3 November 1940 No. 890 to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine wrote the German Marineattaché Portugal that according to the newspaper Diario de Noticias, Lisbon dated 1 November 1940 the Spanish passenger steamship Marqués de Comillas left in the night of 1-2 November destined for New York, USA with on board 325 refugees of different nationalities.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché Portugal. RM 11-16