15.6.1940 South Atlantic 16°39’S, 32°52’W 136th day at sea
Mtr.O.Gfr Meyer of the starboard bridge watch sighted a smoke column off the port bow and with this the Wolf obtained her first success in the North Atlantic. The smoke column was the Australian freighter S.S. WHITEMARK 7,085 grt GFTK homeport Melbourne in transit from Freemantle to Southampton via Hong Kong-Halifax loaded with 8,800 t of tires, steel plate, and wheat. The vessel had been armed in Freemantle and put up a fight with the Hilfskreuzer which resulted in a battle in which the freighter fired 10 salvos all of which missed, in turn the raider fired 81 shells and 2 torpedoes of the crew of 90, 81 including the master Capitan S.W. Fish were taken prisoner. The ship sank fast over the stern.
After the sinking the Wolf headed south sighting only a neutral Argentine freighter on the 10th. On 11.6 she crossed the equator at 29°42’W. The following morning the crossing of the line ceremony took place. During the next 4 days the raider encountered heavy seas and rough weather. today the weather cleared and Kapitan.z.S Hartmann plans to send the Arado on at least 2 reconnaissance flights per day. The ship has freedom to operate as far south as the Falkland Islands always keeping south of the equator and west of Ascension Island.