In Memory Of

COBURN, FRANK STILWELL

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1916-12-31
Rank:
 Boatswain (Bosun)
Unit:
 M.V. Narragansett (London)
Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
 1942-03-25
Cause of Death:
 At 06.09 hours on 25 March 1942 the unescorted Narragansett (Master Michael Blackburn Roberts) was hit in the stern by one torpedo from U-105 about 400 miles east of Hampton Roads, Virginia and sank burning after a hit with a coup de gr?ce at 06.18 hours. The master, 42 crew members and six gunners were lost. The tanker had been missed by a spread of three torpedoes at 04.01 hours and a spread of two torpedoes at 04.08 hours.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 72.
Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 London
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of George Oldham Coburn and Gertrude Jessie Coburn. Born Heidelberg, Transvaal. Educated Witbank Intermediate School; General Botha Cadet Draft 1931-2. In 1933 Frank Stilwell Coburn became an apprentice with Messrs. Hogarth & Sons, serving in their Baron Dichmont and later in their Narragansett, when she was lost in mid-Atlantic on 25 March 1942.