Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da Yakin hunturu ya ɓarke a shekara ta 1939, sojojin Soviet sun yi ruwan bama-bamai a kan Turku, amma Crichton-Vulcan ya guje wa manyan lalacewa. Lokacin da zaman lafiya ya zo a cikin 1940, Finland ta sanya hannu kan sabon yarjejeniyar kasuwanci tare da Tarayyar Soviet kuma ba da daɗewa ba Staffans da Soviet Machinoimport sun sanya hannu kan kwangilar jiragen ruwa guda huɗu; wannan ya biyo bayan wani tsari na 12 da wasu manyan jiragen ruwa iri ɗaya. Ba a iya ba da jirgin ruwa guda ba kafin Finland ta sake yin yaƙi da Soviet Union
a lokacin rani na shekara ta 1941. Koyaya, Staffans ya sami sabon abokin ciniki: ya yarda da isar da jiragen ruwa zuwa Kriegsmarine na Jamus a maimakon haka, kuma ginin ya sami ƙarin umarni kaɗan don irin wannan jirgi daga Jamus. Bugu da ƙari, Staffans ya sanya hannu kan kwangilar jiragen ruwa don Jamus. An ba da jirgi 38 zuwa Jamus kafin Finland ta shiga yaƙi da Jamus a watan Satumbar 1944. Yankin ya sha wahala wasu lalacewar a cikin Yaƙin Ci gaba.