USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168)
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Wilhelmina in commercial service with Matson.
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| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Namesake: | Queen Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Matson Navigation Company |
| Route: | San Francisco–Honolulu |
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| Launched: | 18 September 1909 |
| Completed: | 7 December 1909 |
| In service: | 1910 |
| Out of service: | 1917 |
| Fate: | requisitioned by the United States government |
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USS Wilhelmina (ID-2168) underway in New York Harboron 1 May 1918
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| Name: | USS Wilhelmina (ID-2106) |
| Commissioned: | 26 January 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 August 1919 |
| Struck: | 16 August 1919 |
| Fate: | Returned to Matson |
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| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Matson Navigation Company |
| In service: | 1919 |
| Out of service: | 1930s |
| Fate: | sold |
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| Name: | SS Wilhelmina |
| Owner: | Ministry of War Transport |
| Operator: | Douglas & Ramsay |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Homeport: | Glasgow |
| Fate: | sunk by U-94 on 2 December 1940 |
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| 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) |
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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 in San Francisco, California, until sold to a British shipping 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.
Wilhelmina—a steel-hulled, single-screw, passenger and cargo steamer built at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. for the Matson Navigation Company—was launched on 18 September 1909 and departed her builders' yard on 7 December of that year. Under the Matson flag, Wilhelmina conducted regular runs between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii, carrying passengers and cargo between 1910 and 1917.
Inspected by the Navy at the 12th Naval District, San Francisco, on 18 June 1917—two months after the United States entered World War I—the steamship was later taken over by the United States Shipping Board on 1 December. Soon afterwards she sailed for Chile where she obtained a cargo of nitrates. Delivering that cargo at Norfolk, Virginia., Wilhelmina shifted to New York on 23 January 1918. Given Identification Number 2168, the ship was then taken over by the Navy and apparently commissioned on 26 January. Lieutenant Commander Joe W. Jory, USNRF, is listed as being in command in February. Wilhelmina was diverted to "special duty" and made her first voyage to France soon afterwards, departing New York with a general cargo on 1 February and returning on 26 March. Upon her return, she shifted to the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, where she was taken in hand and converted to a troopship for service with the Cruiser and Transport Force. When her extant deck logs begin, her commanding officer is listed as Commander William T. Tarrant.
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