Manuil Vasilyevich Ozerov was a Russian Counter Admiral during the early 20th century. He was known for commanding the Sissoi Veliky during the Battle of Tsushima and was one of the few officers who managed to survive the battle.
Manuil was born on October 15, 1852, at the village of Belmovo at the Tula Governorate. His father was Vasily Andreevich Ozerov who was of nobility, a court councilor and the head of the village while his mother was Evpraksia Vasilievna Spolokhov. He proceeded to enter the Naval Cadet Corps and graduated as a Garde de la Marine at the 5th Naval Crew on April 17, 1871.[1] He was promoted to michman on May 8, 1873, and seconded to the Naval College on October 4, 1874. Ozerov received his first command on the auditor Ne Tron' Menya from November 3, 1876, to March 27, 1880, while being promoted to lieutenant on January 1, 1877. His next command was the monitor Uragan on 1880 and was made commander of the economic company on October 30, 1881. On May 20, 1883, he became the inspector for the Minin which was serving on the Pacific Ocean but was decommissioned on November 26, 1884, due to familial reasons. Ozerov returned on December 15, 1884, and was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet and assigned to the 1st Naval Crew of the fleet 4 days later. From June 6, 1887, to October 30, 1887, and February 15, 1888, to August 13, 1890, he was the acting senior officer aboard the Chernomorets and briefly acted as a senior officer of the steamer Eriklik[ru] from October 30, 1887, to February 15, 1888.[citation needed]
Ozerov was promoted to Captain 2nd Rank on April 1, 1890, and received command of the Dvenadsat Apostolov from August 13 to October 1, 1890, before returning to the Chernomorets from October 1, 1890, to October 12. He was then made the assistant commander of the 1st Naval Crew from October 31, 1890, to April 16, 1891, before being made the head of the musicians of the 31st Naval Crew on April 23, 1892. On January 1, 1893, he received command of the Ingul but was transferred to the Baltic Fleet at the 35th Naval Crew on January 1, 1885. Ozerov continued with his musical career as he headed the choir of port musicians from September 27, 1892, to April 26, 1894, but was transferred to the coastal defense battleship Novgorod on January 1, 1885. Ozerov then became the Junior assistant commander of Kronstadt from May 15, 1895, to December 16, 1896, and was transferred to the transport Samoyed on December 16, 1897. He was promoted to Captain 1st Rank on December 6, 1898, and was made flag-captain of the costal headquarters of the 2nd Naval Division on January 4, 1899, and the flag captain of the commander of the training squadron of the Baltic Sea on April 3, 1899.[citation needed]
On December 6, 1899, he was given command of the General-Admiral and was enrolled to the 11th Naval Crew on January 19, 1900. From August 24, 1900, to June 7, 1902, he served on the Poltava and command of the 13th Naval Crew from April 16, 1903, to March 28, 1904. After being given command of the Sissoi Veliky since September 9, 1902, he went on to participate at the Battle of Tsushima but after the ship was sunk, he was taken prisoner.[2] Ozerov then took up maritime piloting as he became commander of the lightship London and promoted to Counter Admiral on November 5, 1907, but retired by 1909.[3][4] Ozerov died on November 6, 1919, at the town of Belev and was buried at the Belevsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery.[citation needed]
Navarin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The ship was assigned to the Baltic Fleet and spent the early part of her career deployed in the Mediterranean and in the Far East. She participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 before returning to the Baltic Fleet in 1901. Several months after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, she was assigned to the 2nd Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was sunk by Japanese destroyers which spread twenty-four linked mines across her path during the night. Navarin struck two of these mines and capsized with the loss of most of her crew.
Sissoi Veliky was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. The ship's construction was marred by organizational, logistical and engineering problems and dragged on for more than five years. She was commissioned in October 1896 with an appalling number of design and construction faults, and only a few of them were fixed during her lifetime. Immediately after sea trials, Sissoi Veliky sailed to the Mediterranean to enforce the naval blockade of Crete during the Greco-Turkish War. On March 15 [O.S. March 3], 1897 she suffered a devastating explosion of the aft gun turret that killed 21 men. After nine months in the docks of Toulon for repairs, the ship sailed to the Far East to reinforce the Russian presence there. In the summer of 1900, Sissoi Veliky supported the international campaign against the Boxer Rebellion in China. Sailors from Sissoi Veliky and the battleship Navarin participated in the defence of the International Legations in Beijing for more than two months.
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