Frank Lovell Oakes (August 8, 1850 – January 31, 1912) was an American sea captain of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[4] He began his seafaring career at the age of fifteen, around the time of his mother's death, on a schooner for the short sailing between Portland and Yarmouth.

On May 29,[3] the vessel met "unfavorable conditions" during a "nor'west gale of thirty-six hours duration" that turned into a hurricane.

The Blanchard launched a few rockets, which were answered with blue lights from the other ship, the County of Lancaster, in the charge of Captain Richard Quiller.

[1] His wife survived him by 24 years and was interred beside him in Yarmouth's Riverside Cemetery, in the same plot as his parents and three siblings.