M. H. Khan

Rear Admiral Mosharraf Hossain Khan
মোশাররফ হোসেন খান
2nd Chief of Naval Staff
In office 7 November 1973 – 3 November 1979
President	Abu Sayeed Chowdhury Mohammad Mohammadullah Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad Abu Sadat Sayem Ziaur Rahman
Prime Minister	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Muhammad Mansur Ali Masihur Rahman (acting) Shah Azizur Rahman
Preceded by	Nurul Huq
Succeeded by	Mahbub Ali Khan
Personal details
Born	(1932-02-01)1 February 1932 Nurpur, Assam, British India
Died	13 October 2018(2018-10-13) (aged 86) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Military service
Allegiance	Bangladesh  Pakistan (before 1971)
Branch/service	Pakistan Navy  Bangladesh Navy
Years of service	1954 - 1979
Rank	Rear Admiral
Commands	Commander, PNS Babur Commander, Chittagong Naval Area (COMCHIT) Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) Chief of Naval Staff
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Bangladesh Liberation War (as POW)

Mosharraf Hossain Khan (known as M H Khan; 1 February 1932 – 12 October 2018)^[1] was a Bangladesh Navy admiral who served as the chief of the Bangladesh Navy^[2] from 7 November 1973 to 3 November 1979. After the Bangladesh war of Independence, Admiral Khan was appointed as the 1st^{[citation needed]} chief of the naval staff of the Bangladesh Navy in November 1973 by the Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. During his tenure, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 10 December 1974 commissioned Bangladesh Navy's largest naval base BNS Issa Khan and also handed over "naval ensign" to Bangladesh Navy on the same day.

M. H. Khan joined the Pakistan Navy in 1950. Upon selection as a cadet into the Pakistan Navy, he was sent to the Royal Navy for training. In 1951 he entered Royal Naval College Dartmouth and after a few years of sea time on RN ships he subsequently, as a sub lieutenant was selected to attend the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1954. He served on several Royal Naval ships including the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. He continued his career in the Pakistan Navy and was on a fast track where he achieved the rank of Captain and commanded several of the primary naval ships of the Pakistan Navy, including the cruiser PNS Babur and the flag ship destroyer PNS Khaibar. Admiral Khan created the Bangladesh Navy from scratch in very difficult circumstances but was able to create and implement the framework upon which the Bangladesh Navy has been built, following the scope and plan that he laid out in his six plus years as naval chief.^[3]