Charles Chandler Oakes (1856 – December 4, 1934) was an American sea captain of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originally on windjammers and later on steamships.
[5] In 1898, the Oakses were anchored at Manila Bay when they received word of the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.
[6] After several years as captain of sea-faring vessels, including the Yarmouth-built S. C. Blanchard, he became superintendent for Ward Steamship Lines.
Oakes died on December 4, 1934, in Santa Ana, California, to which he and his wife had moved around 1926 upon Charles' retirement.
Aged 78, he was cremated in Santa Ana, then his ashes were interred in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, in the same plot as his parents and three siblings.