Frank Stanton Stewart

Graduating Class
1921

Hometown
Simpsonville, South Carolina

Service & Rank
Navy, Seaman Second Class

Unit
USS Montauk (SP0392) - Minesweeper

Date of Birth
Jan 31, 1897

Date of Death
Aug 21, 1918

Details of Death
The ship was destroyed in a storm. Stewart's body was never recovered.

Burial Details
Memorialized in Clear Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Simpsonville, SC

Barrow Stone Location
NW

Additional Information

USS Montauk (SP-392) was a trawler acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I.  She was outfitted as a coastal minesweeper and was assigned to the 6th Naval District based at Charleston, South Carolina.  Cruising at that time off the Georgia and Florida coast, Montauk was lost, with seven of her crew, when she ran aground and foundered at Cumberland Island, one of the barrier islands off the Georgia coast — known as the Sea Islands — in a northeasterly gale.  Montauk was approximately 20 miles from Fernandina, Florida.

Extract from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Montauk (SP-392)

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Memorial marker in Clear Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Simpsonville, SC

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