A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ince, John Matthew Robert
INCE. (Commander, 1846.)
John Matthew Robert Ince entered the Navy 14 Dec. 1828; passed his examination 24 April, 1835; and at the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 23 Nov. 1841, was serving in the Mediterranean as Mate of the Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Lunn. He was appointed on 30 of the same month to the Implacable 74, Capt. Edw. Harvey, also in the Mediterranean; and from 7 March, 1842, until paid off on his return to England in 1846, was employed in the East Indies on board the Fly 18, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood. Commander Ince, who attained his present rank on 9 Nov. in the latter year, is at present on half-pay.