Ordinary, on board the Wassenaer armée en flûte, Capts. Edw. Marsh and John Larmour, employed at first in the Downs and next in the Mediterranean; where in 1801, having followed Capt. Larmour as Midshipman into the Diadem troop-ship, he took part in the operations connected with the expedition to Egypt, and was present at the landing of the army. In March, 1803, nearly 12 months after the Diadem had been paid off, he was again placed under the command of Capt. Larmour on board the Clyde 38; in which frigate we find him, during the next year and a half, employed in the North Sea, chiefly in blockading the Dutch coast. He then, in Sept. 1804, joined the Melampus 36, Capts. Stephen Poyntz and Edw. Hawker, under the former of whom, while stationed in the Channel, West Indies, and North America, he contributed to the capture of two brigs, each carrying 2 long 24-pounders, 1 18-pounder, and 50 men, most of them soldiers; four luggers of 1 long 18-pounder and 25 men each, from Bordeaux bound to Brest; and a Spanish privateer, the Hydra of 28 guns and 192 men, 3 of whom were killed and several wounded. He also, in company with the Belleisle and Bellona 74’s, assisted at the destruction, off Cape Henry, of the French 74 L’Impétueux. Being nominated, in Feb. 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Triumph 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy and Sam. Hood Linzee, he ultimately, after cruizing in the North Sea and Basque Roads, proceeded first to the Tagus (where he was intrusted with the charge of a division of gun-boats) and next to the port of Cadiz; at the defence of which place he was actively engaged in command of a gun-boat. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Triumph, as a reward for his services, 4 May, 1810; was paid oif from that ship 10 Aug. following; and was afterwards employed, from 26 Dec. in the same year until 28 Sept. 1814, in the Armada 74, Capts. Adam Mackenzie, John Ferris Devonshire, and Chas. Grant, and from Oct. 1821 until March, 1825, as First-Lieutenant in the Liffey 50, bearing the broad pendant of the officer last mentioned. In the Armada he assisted at the blockade of Flushing, the Texel, and Toulon, and, including the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn and the capture of Savona, was present in a variety of operations on the coast of Italy. In the Liffey, which ship was stationed in the East Indies, he witnessed the reduction, during the Burmese war, of Rangoon and other places on the river Irawady. He arrived in England with desjiatches in a merchant-ship in July, 1825; and on 19 Aug. following was advanced to the rank of Commander. He has since been on half-pay.
TINDAL. (Retired Commander, 1842. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
Charles Tindal entered the Navy, 12 Sept. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess of Orange 74, Capt. Geo. Hope, fitting at Chatham. In the following Nov. he removed with Capt. Hope to the Leda 38; and in that ship, commanded ultimately by Capt. Hardy, he continued employed in the Mediterranean and Channel until Oct. 1802, the latter part of the time in the capacity of Midshipman. During the next four years he served on the Home station in the Africaine and Pomone frigates, Capts. Thos. Manby and Wm. Grenville Lobb, and Hibernia 120, flag-ship of Earl St. Vincent. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Nov. 1806; and was subsequently appointed – 11 Dec. in the same year, to the Spy sloop, Capt. John Hudson, in the Baltic – 30 June, 1807, to the Royalist 18, Capt. John Maxwell, off Boulogne – 7 Nov. 1807 and 13 April, 1812, to the Narcissus 32, Capts. Chas. Malcolm and Hon. Fred. Wm. Aylmer, and Niemen 38, Capt. Sam. Pym – and 12 May, 1815, to the Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Lord Keith in the Channel. While serving in the Narcissus he assisted at the reduction of the Saintos Islands, in the West Indies, in April, 1809; contributed, in the early part of 1810, to the capture, during a cruize in the Channel, of the privateers Duguay Trouin and Aimable Joséphine, carrying between them 28 guns and 180 men; and was employed, in the ensuing summer, in active co-operation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain. He also made a voyage to Newfoundland. On 23 May, 1814, being then on the coast of North America in the Niemen, he took command of the boats of that ship and in a very gallant manner cut out from Little Egg Harbour the letter-of-marque schooners 'Quiz' pierced for 14 guns, and Clara and Model, each pierced for 12.[1] He left the Ville de Paris 28 Aug. 1815; and accepted his present rank 4 Feb. 1842.
Commander Tindal married, 25 Oct. 1816, Anne, youngest daughter of J. Grant, Esq., of Thoby Priory, Mountnessing, co. Essex. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
TINDAL. (Commander, 1841.)
Louis Symonds Tindal entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his first commission 29 Dec. 1832. His succeeding appointments were – 17 Nov. 1834, to the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Henry John Rous, which frigate, while he was in her, ran ashore on the coast of Labrador, was got off with great difficulty, and crossed the Atlantic without a rudder – 16 Jan. 1836, to the Vestal 26, Capt. Wm. Jones, on the North America and West India station – and 10 Nov. 1837, to the Calliope 26, Capt. Thos. Herbert. In the ship last mentioned he served for some time in South America, and then sailed for the coast of China, where, in the early part of 1841, we find him present in the attack upon Chuenpee, in the action with the Bogue forts, at the storming of the enemy’s works close to Whampoa Reach (in which were found 54 pieces of cannon), at the capture of the last fort protecting the approaches to Canton, and in the first and second series of hostilities against that city. As a reward for his conduct he was advanced to his present rank 8 June, 1841.[2] He was appointed, 16 Oct. following, to the Pylades 18, which vessel he brought home from the East Indies and paid off in Oct. 1843; and, since 16 July, 1846, he has been in command of the Grecian 12, on the S.E. coast of America. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
TINDALE. (Lieut., 1800. f-p., 19; h-p., 35.)
Joseph Tindale entered the Navy, 16 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Quebec 32, Capts. Josias Rogers, David Milne, Jas. Carpenter, and John Cook, employed at first off Ostend and Dunkirk, and then in the West Indies; where (with an interval of two months passed in the Queen 98, flagship of Sir Hyde Parker) he acted as Lieutenant, from Sept. 1797 until Oct. 1798, in the Drake 16, Capt. John Perkins, and Adventure 44, Capts.White, Chilcott, and Christopher Laroche. In 1795 he was for six weeks on shore as Aide-de-Camp to Capt. Rogers, at the island of Grenada. During that period he assisted in preventing the French troops from entering George-Town, and in ultimately compelling them to surrender their designs upon the colony. He was twice afterwards taken a prisoner of war to St. Domingo; and he was present at different times at the cutting-out of a variety of the enemy’s vessels. In command of the boats he set fire to and destroyed, on one occasion, two privateers; and on another he boarded and took a schooner privateer carrying one long traversing gun, a quantity of small arms, and 24 men. In Oct. 1798 he followed Capt. Laroche as Acting-Lieutenant into the Stork 18, commanded next by Capt. Wm. Parker. In that vessel, to which he was confirmed 5 Sept. 1800, he was for upwards of two years and six months employed in the West Indies and on the coast of France. His succeeding appointments were – 25 May, 1801, to the Princess Royal 98, flag-ship of Sir Erasmus Gower, with whom he served in the Channel until April, 1802, half the time as Signal- Lieutenant – 27 Doc. 1803, to the Inflexible 44, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Macnamara
