[4] During the 1925 visit of the American fleet, the ship was involved in an incident described as "a gratuitous insult to the Prime Minister"[by whom?]

when the ship's firemen went on strike with Commonwealth Ministers and a thousand guests, including foreign consuls and military officers, aboard.

The strike was in protest at comments made by the Prime Minister and demanded he depart the ship, although he was actually not aboard.

[6][7] An article of 1 November 1943, noting the steamer might not resume excursion service after the war, mentioned that the company, Bay Steamers, was in liquidation and that the ship operated thirty-three years without a collision, that four of her captains had retired and died and that she had made 2,774 voyages, travelled 206,990 miles (333,120 km) and carried 3,030,508 passengers in that service.

[8] Weeroona became part of the United States Army permanent local fleet under the Southwest Pacific Area command's supply organisation, United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA), and was used extensively serving as a quarters ship for American maritime personnel.