Zoilo Sánchez de Ocańa y Vieitiz (27 June 1831 – 1907)[1] was a Spanish Navy officer who served as the first Chief of Staff of the Navy from 14 July 1895[2] to 19 March 1896.
[3] As of 1869, he was a frigate captain on the war and navy section of the State Council.
[4] He was also made a Commander of the Order of Charles III in 1865,[5] and in 1893 he had been awarded the Order of Naval Merit.
[6] It is likely that he was retired or died by the time the Spanish–American War broke out in 1898, as he was not present at a meeting of senior Spanish naval officers on 23 April 1898 that decided to send Admiral Pascual Cervera's squadron to Cuba.
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