Ismael Warleta y Ordovás

Ismael Warleta y Ordovás (1836, Madrid – 9 August 1898)^[1] was a Spanish admiral who served as the Chief of Staff of the Spanish Navy from 20 August 1897^[2] until his death on 9 August 1898^[1] (although his successor was not appointed until 30 March 1899).^[3] Warleta's tenure as chief of naval staff coincided with the Spanish–American War, during which he attended a meeting on 23 April 1898 led by the naval minister Segismundo Bermejo y Merelo, where he supported the proposal of deploying Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete's squadron to Cuba—a decision that led to the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.^[4] Previously, he had served as the head of the logistics branch of the Ministry of the Navy,^[2] and from 1888 until 1890 he commanded the cruiser Reina Regente as a ship-of-the-line captain.^[5]

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Military offices
Preceded by Segismundo Bermejo y Merelo	Chief of Staff of the Navy 1897–1898	Succeeded by Manuel Mozo y Díaz Robles

v t Chiefs of Staff of the Spanish Navy
Restoration 1874–1931	Zoilo Sánchez de Ocaña y Vieitiz 1895–1896 Fernando Martínez de Espinosa y Echeverri 1896 Segismundo Bermejo y Merelo 1896–1897 Ismael Warleta y Ordovás 1897–1898 Manuel Mozo y Díaz Robles 1899–1902 Pascual Cervera y Topete 1902– 1908–1909 1909–1910 1910–1912 1912–1913 1913–1914 1914–1915 1915–1918 1918–1919 1919–1920 1920–1924 1924 1924–1927 1927 1927–1931 1931–1936
Republic 1936–1939	1937 Miguel Buiza Fernández-Palacios 1937–1938 1938–1939 1939
Dictatorship 1936–1975	1936–1939 Transferred to the Ministry of the Navy 1939–1942 1942–1951 1951–1952 1952–1956 1956–1957 1957–1963 1963 1963–1966 1966–1967 Adolfo Baturone Colombo 1967–1969 1969–1972 1972–1973 1973–1975
Contemporary 1975–present	1975–1977 1977–1982 1982–1984 1984–1986 1986–1990 1990–1994 1994–1997 1997–2000 2000–2004 2004–2008 Manuel Rebollo García 2008–2012 2012–2017 Teodoro Esteban López Calderón 2017–2021 Fausto Escrigas Rodríguez (Acting) 2021 Antonio Martorell Lacave 2021–present