US NAVY
Sunday, 5 November 1939
U.S.
freighter Black Condor is detained by British authorities at Weymouth,
England (see 17 November); freighter Scanmail is detained by the British
at Kirkwall, Orkneys. Part of her cargo is seized; steamship President Polk is
detained by the British at Port Said, Egypt, and certain items of her cargo
confiscated for inquiry; freighter Black Eagle, detained by the British
since 26 October, is released.
Monday, 6 November 1939
U.S.
freighter Exeter is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities. She is
released the same day after 700 bags of U.S. mail are removed from the ship
(see 8 and 10 November). Freighter Exminster, detained at Gibraltar by
the British since 1 November, is released without any confiscation of cargo.
Tuesday, 7 November 1939
Naval
Attaché, Berlin, is informed by an official of the German Navy Ministry that it
had been "definitely established that no German U‑boat had torpedoed the Athenia."
The German Navy considers the incident "closed as far as the Navy was
concerned" and possesses only "an academic interest in how the ship
was sunk."
Wednesday, 8 November 8, 1939
U.S.
freighter Exeter is detained by French authorities (see 8 and 10
November).
U.S. freighter Express
is detained by British authorities at Gibraltar but is released the same
day after her cargo is examined; freighter Tulsa, detained at London by
the British since 23 October, is released; freighter Wacosta, detained
by the British since 24 October, is released after cargo billed for delivery to
Rotterdam, Holland, is seized as contraband.
Friday, 10 November 1939
U.S.
freighter Exeter, detained by French authorities since 8 November, is
released after 1,400 bales of cottonseed hulk consigned to a Swiss buyer are
removed as contraband.
Saturday, 11 November 1939
U.S.
freighter Nishmaha is detained by British authorities at Gibraltar (see
17 November); freighter Yaka is detained by the British and her cargo
examined (see 5 and 6 December).
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