SS Point Pleasant Park

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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.