Later Career
Wilhelmina remained under the Matson house flag through the 1920s and 1930s. In 1927, the Wilhelmia was one of two ships that steered to aid the Travel Air 5000 "City of Oakland" in its successful transpacific flight attempt. Sold to British interests in 1940, the steamship was sailing with Convoy HX 90, sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, in the North Atlantic, on 2 December 1940, when U-94, part of a wolfpack that included U-47 of Scapa Flow fame, drew a bead on a tanker and the steamer W. Hendrik, and fired two torpedoes. Both missed but continued on to strike and sink Wilhelmina.
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