Office of the Historian

File No. 195.1/498

The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Liverpool (Washington)

[Telegram—Extract]
Washington, August 10, 1915.

Department is informed American Transatlantic Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, has recorded with collector customs, Milwaukee, bill of sale of Norwegian steamship Lapland to American Transatlantic Company and has made affidavit to good-faith transfer according Department of Commerce regulations. Bureau Navigation has awarded ship signal letters LFNC. Ship now at Barrow, England.

At request and by direction Secretary of Commerce, you will issue to steamship Lapland papers to be known as provisional register in following form: . . .2

Osborne
  1. Such registers were also issued to the company’s other ships.↩