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JOHN N. STEWART
John N. Stewart, a cadet at the United States Merchant Marine Academy,
died serving his country on July 1st, 1943. Stewart was a deck major
and in the midst of his sea year aboard the SS SAMUEL HEINTZELMAN, a Liberty
Ship with a merchant crew of 42 and an Armed Guard of 19. The SS SAMUEL
HEINTZELMAN disappeared with all hands after leaving Fremantle, Australia on
July 1, 1943. The ship was headed for Calcutta, via the Colombo and Karachi, but
it never reached its final destination. Stewart most likely boarded the ship
when it departed from Charleston, South Carolina on May 11, 1943. The Allied
Forces never heard from the ship again, astonishingly, both the Japanese and
German forces clam credit for sinking her. German records show she was torpedoed
by the German submarine U-511 (Schneewind) on July 9, 1943 in position 9-00
South/81-00 East. A dispatch from the U.S. Navy dated October 5, 1943 read as
follows: