Naval Academy & High School graduates

Naval High School (Turkish: Deniz Lisesi); known in the Ottoman period as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering (Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümâyûn) and later as the Imperial Naval School (Mekteb-i Bahriye-i Şahane); is a Turkish naval high school located on Heybeliada Island (the second largest of the Prince Islands) in the Sea of Marmara, to the southeast of Istanbul, Turkey. The history of Deniz Lisesi dates back to 1773. The high school was established as the Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümâyûn (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) in the Kasımpaşa district of Istanbul, on the northern shoreline of the Golden Horn, where the shipyards and arsenal of the Ottoman Navy, and the headquarters of the Ottoman Ministry of the Navy (Bahriye Nezareti) were located.