He was born in Piraeus in 1850. He was enrolled into the Navy Academy and teamed up as a second level in 1874. He was ranked up to a mark of a rear-admiral. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, he was ranked with a mark of lieutenant commander as a leader of the steamship "Pineios". He also admirably from one of the navy leaders of the Great Powers, with the help from chiefs of Prince George of Greece of the torpedo's fate, made it over target boat Eta and captured the steamship "Georgios" of the Turkish shipping company "Hagi Daut Farkuh" which it got Turkish soldiers in the battle of Crete. Later on, he captured the sailboat ship which he entered the English pro-Turkish politician and journalist A. Bartlett, an autographer of the sultan' letter to the Turkish military leader of Crete Ethem Pasha.