SS Point Pleasant Park Memorial Cairn

SS POINT PLEASANT PARK

A CANADIAN WORLD WAR II, 10,000 TON FREIGHTER
NAMED AFTER THIS PARK WAS SUNK BY TORPEDO
FROM ENEMY SUBMARINE 502 MILES NORTHWEST
OF CAPETOWN SOUTH AFRICA ON FEB 23 1945
THE FOLLOWING MEN WERE LOST

JOSEPH BAYLISS
FRED BREEN
GEORGE EDWARDS
PATRICK GUTHRIE
ROBERT HALLAHAN

ALFRED MALMBERG
ROBERT MUNRO
LESLIE TOTH
LOUIS WILKINSON

THIS CAIRN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THESE
GALLANT AND UNSUNG MEN OF THE MERCHANT
NAVY AND TO THE HAPPY SHIP IN WHICH THEY
SERVED CANADA AND DIED FOR HER FREEDOM

ERECTED JULY 1967 BY THE PARK COMMISSION
AND CAPT PAUL TOOKE MN FOR THE SURVIVORS
WHO SAILED 414 DAYS IN 10 DAYS IN LIFEBOATS
TO THE KALAHARI DESERT OF SOUTH AFRICA
AND WERE RESCUED BY HMSAS AFRICANA

THE SOUTHERN CROSS THEIR ETERNAL FLAME