We're watching Season 3 of
Ertuğrul on
Netflix and it's pretty great. The series has been around for while, so when I started thinking about doing a post, I checked my pile of files, and this shipwreck popped up.
Ertuğrul, launched in 1863, was a sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. While returning from a goodwill voyage to Japan in 1890, she encountered a typhoon off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, subsequently drifted into a reef and sank. The shipwreck resulted in the loss of 533 sailors and officers, including Rear Admiral Ali Osman Pasha. Only 69 sailors and officers survived and returned home later aboard two Japanese corvettes. The event is still commemorated as a foundation stone of Japanese-Turkish friendship. - Wikipedia
Looks like the captain and the artist may have been related, but this makes it seem unlikely:
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, Osman is the given name, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name. - Wikipedia
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