Osman Pasha (Mirliva)

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Osman Pasha was promoted to Rear Admiral (Mirliva) in 1890

Osman Emin Ahmed Pascha (* 1858 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire ; † 1890 before Kii-Ōshima , Japan ), also known as Mirliva Osman Pascha or Osman Bey , was an Ottoman naval officer , most recently in the rank of rear admiral ( Mirliva ).

Life

Osman was the grandson of Vice Admiral (Patrona) Osman Pasha . At the age of 12 he entered the naval school in 1870, graduated second in his class and in 1877 became an ensign on the Resmo . As a lieutenant he sailed to Basra in 1879 under the command of his father, Captain Ahmet Bey, before becoming an artillery officer on the armored frigate Osmaniye in 1880 and an instructor on the training ship Hüdavendigar in 1882 . In the rank of first lieutenant he was sent to Paris in 1883 as a naval attaché and in the rank of lieutenant captain in 1884 as consul to Nikolayev .

The marriage with the daughter of the Ottoman naval minister (Bozcaadalı Hasan Hüsnü Paşa?) Accelerated Osman's career: in September 1885 he was promoted to corvette captain , in 1887 he became aide-de-camp of the Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II and in September 1889 captain (Miralay) .

Death with the Ertuğrul

Before Japan the Ertuğrul got into heavy seas in 1890 (painted by Osman Nuri )

After a Japanese warship had visited Istanbul in 1887, Osman Pascha was commissioned in 1889 to make a return visit to Japan with the frigate Ertuğrul and to deliver gifts of honor from the Ottoman Sultan to the Japanese Emperor Meiji . The sailing frigate, built in 1863, had been converted into a training ship.

Via Port Said, Suez, Aden, Bombay and Colombo, the Ertuğrul first reached Singapore , where Osman Pasha received news of his promotion to Rear Admiral (Mirliva) in November 1889. After waiting for better weather in Singapore, the Ottomans finally arrived in Yokohama, Japan, in June 1890 . A part of the crew was caught by the plague there and 12 seamen died, but the visit was politically successful.

The Ertuğrul was supposed to sail back via Osaka , Nagasaki , Shanghai and Calcutta in September 1890. However, just one day after leaving Yokohama, she got caught in a typhoon , which the crew could not cope with. The frigate rammed a reef and sank on the night of September 15-16, 1890 off the Japanese island of Ōshima ; 530 sailors and accompanying civilians drowned - including Osman Pascha. About 260 bodies could be recovered, Osman Paschas was not among them. A memorial was erected on the island to the seamen who had been declared martyrs by the Ottoman side . The 69 survivors were brought to Istanbul by two Japanese warships in January 1891.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e History of the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul . 1965, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 5-2259 .
personal data
SURNAME Pasha, Osman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osman Bey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 1890
Place of death Kii-Ōshima