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2 unusual facts about Alfred Eick


Alfred Eick

At the 25 anniversary of Eick's sinking of the SS Point Pleasant Park, the surviving crew created a monument to those that died in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

SS Point Pleasant Park

On the 23 February 1945 at approximately 14:00 the ship was sailing independently approximately 500 miles north west of Cape Town, South Africa when U-510 skippered by Cdr Alfred Eick fired on the ship.



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