List of Fleet Commanders of the Ottoman Navy

This list includes Fleet Commanders (Turkish: Donanma Komutanı) of the Ottoman Navy.[1]

On March 13, 1867, the title of Kapudan Pasha (list) was abolished, and the Naval Minister (Bahriye Nazırı) and the Fleet Commander (Donanma Komutanı) were instituted.[1]

Ottoman Navy Fleet Commanders (1877-1920)
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1Amiral Bozcaadalı Hasan Hüsnü Pasha18771894Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
2Amiral Hüseyin Pasha18941897
3Amiral Hasan Rami Pasha18971908Greco-Turkish War (1897)
4Ferik Amiral Sir Douglas Gamble[2]19088 February 1910
5Officer Ford[2]February 1910April 1910Head of the first British naval mission to the Ottoman Empire
6Liva Amiral Hugh Pigot Williams[2]April 19101910Head of the second British naval mission to the Ottoman Empire
7Kalyon Kaptanı Cibalili Tahir Mehmed Bey20 December 191024 July 1912Italo-Turkish War
8Kalyon Kaptanı Sermet Fazıl Bey24 July 191218 August 1912
9Kalyon Kaptanı Selanikli Ramiz Numan Bey19 November 19126 February 1913First Balkan War, battles of Lemnos and Elli
10Kalyon Kaptanı Cibalili Tahir Mehmed Bey6 February 191314 November 1913
11Liva Amiral Arthur Limpus[2]14 November 19133 August 1914Head of the third British naval mission to the Ottoman Empire
12Fırkateyn Kaptanı Arif Ahmed Bey3 August 19143 September 1914
13Amiral Wilhelm Souchon[3]3 September 191424 August 1917Head of the German naval mission to the Ottoman Empire. Helped provoke the entry of the Ottoman Empire into World War I on the side of the Central Powers through the Black Sea Raid against Russian naval bases
14Amiral Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz[3]24 August 19173 November 1918Battle of Imbros
15Liva Amiral Arif Ahmed Bey3 November 191822 April 1920
Turkish Navy Fleet Commanders (1922-1924)
16Kalyon Kaptanı Hamdi Tevfik Bey22 December 192223 January 1924
17Fırkateyn Kaptanı Fuat Hüsnü Bey23 January 192411 May 1924

Sources

  1. 1 2 Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Güleryüz, The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995, ISBN 1-55750-659-0, p. 197.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Royal Navy Officer
  3. 1 2 German Imperial Navy Officer
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