USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168)
USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168) underway in New York Harboron 1 May 1918 |
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| Career (Matson) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Namesake: | Queen Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Matson Navigation Company |
| Route: | San Francisco–Honolulu |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Newport News, Virginia |
| Launched: | 18 September 1909 |
| Completed: | 7 December 1909 |
| In service: | 1910 |
| Out of service: | 1917 |
| Fate: | requisitioned by the United States government |
| Career (U.S. Navy) | |
| Name: | USS Wilhelmina (ID-2106) |
| Commissioned: | 26 January 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 August 1919 |
| Struck: | 16 August 1919 |
| Fate: | Returned to Matson |
| Career (Matson) | |
| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Matson Navigation Company |
| In service: | 1919 |
| Out of service: | 1930s |
| Fate: | sold |
| Career | |
| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Ministry of War Transport |
| Operator: | Douglas & Ramsay |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Homeport: | Glasgow |
| Fate: | sunk by U-94 on 2 December 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 13,250 |
| Length: | 451 ft 2 in (137.52 m) |
| Beam: | 54 ft 1 in (16.48 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) (mean) |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
| Complement: | 271 (as USS Wilhelmina) |
| Armament: | 4 × 6-inch (150 mm) guns 2 × 1-pounders 4 × depth charges |
USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168) was a transport for the United States Navy during World War I. Built in 1909 for Matson Navigation Company as SS Wilhelmina, she sailed from the West Coast of the United States to Hawaii until 1917. After her war service, she was returned to Matson and resumed Pacific Ocean service. In the late 1930s she was laid up in San Francisco, California, until sold to a British company in 1940. While a part of a convoy sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool, she was sunk by U-94 on 2 December 1940.
Read more about USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168): Early History, World War I, Later Career