[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 was built by the Canadian Park Steamship Company Limited, a Crown Corporation set up in 1942 to aid the Allied war effort by building and operating cargo ships to replace those lost to enemy action and ensure an ample flow of supplies to Allied forces.

The Halifax Herald featured the ship on its front page in honour of the connection between the city's landmark park and the war effort.

The ship then called on Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban in South Africa and Beira, Mozambique before returning to Cape Town with a cargo of sugar.

Point Pleasant sailed next to Lagos, Nigeria and collected a cargo of palm oil, peanuts and cocoa for Montreal where she arrived on 19 June 1944.

Daily rations were 2 ounces of water per man, two spoons of pemmican (hard grain mixed with fat), two biscuits and a small piece of chocolate.

[6] Captain Owens and 19 crew members made landfall at Mercury Island on South West Africa's Skeleton Coast on 2 March.

There the fishing vessel Boy Russell found them, and took them to the harbour town of Lüderitz, South West Africa.

The South African naval trawler HMSAS Africana found the other lifeboat on 4 March, north of Spencer Bay.

After recovery in hospital, the survivors went by rail to Cape Town and eventually made their way back to Canada via the United States.

The British Empire Medal was awarded to five crew members: Laurant Girard, Robert Korogi, Edgar Proctor, Frank Rosendaal, and John Slade.

[7] Twenty-two years after the sinking of the Point Pleasant Park, the survivors erected a memorial to their lost comrades in Halifax.

Until the news of the monument had reached him, he had assumed that all the crew had survived, as his torpedo had struck far aft on the ship and he had observed the orderly evacuation of two full lifeboats before he left the scene fearing an air attack.