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History
Canada
Name
SS Point Pleasant Park
Owner
Furness Withy (Canada) Ltd, Montreal
Operator
Park Steamship Co Ltd (1943)
Witherington & Everett (1944)
Port of registry
Montreal
Builder
Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon
In service
8 November 1943
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk, 23 February 1945
General characteristics
Tonnage
2,878 GRT
1,653 NRT
Length
315 ft 5 in (96.14 m)
Beam
46 ft 5 in (14.15 m)
Depth
22 ft 9 in (6.93 m)
Installed power
Triple expansion steam engine
Propulsion
Screw propellor
Crew
34, plus 4 DEMS gunners
Armament
1 x 4 inch deck gun aft
1 x 3 inch (76 mm)/50 caliber gun
4 x 20 mm Oerlikon
2 x Twin .50 cal. Machine Guns
20 x Rail Anti-Aircraft Rocket Launcher (Pillar Box) [1]
SS Point Pleasant Park was a merchant steamship constructed for Canada's Merchant Navy in 1942 during the Second World War as part of Canada's Park ship program.[2] She carried a variety of wartime cargoes to Atlantic and Indian Ocean ports until the German submarine U-510 sank her off the coast of South Africa on 23 February 1945 as Point Pleasant Park was sailing independently from Saint John, New Brunswick to Cape Town. Point Pleasant Park was the last vessel sunk in South African waters during the Second World War.
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