A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Incledon, Robert
INCLEDON. (Commander, 1813. h-p., 17; h-p., 33.)
Robert Incledon entered the Navy, in June, 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spitfire sloop, Capts. Michael Seymour and Robt. Keen, on the Channel station, where he continued to serve as Midshipman, latterly in the Namur 98, Capt. Hon. Michael De Courcy, until paid off at the peace. In the summer of 1802 he proceeded to the Mediterranean as Master’s Mate in the Raven 18, Capt. Spelman Swaine; and on that vessel being wrecked, near Mazara, in Sicily, in Jan. 1804, he joined the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton. Proceeding in the course of the same year to the East Indies in the Culloden 74, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, he was there, in March, 1805, appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Duncan, afterwards Dover, 38, Capts. Chas. Sibthorpe John Hawtayne, Clement Sneyd, Lord Geo. Stuart, Wm. Warden, Henry Hart, Thos. Groube, Wm. Wells, and Edw. Tucker; to which frigate (being confirmed to her by commission dated 28 Sept. 1807) he continued attached until again wrecked in Madras Roads 2 May, 1811. In Feb. 1810 Mr. Incledon, then First-Lieutenant of the Dover, was strongly recommended by his Captain, Edw. Tucker, to the notice of the Commander-in-Chief, for the very great support he had afforded him in his operations against the island of Amboyna; and in the following Aug. he acquired the further praise of the same officer for his conduct at the reduction of the important island of Ternate.[1] On his arrival home in Aug. 1814, after he had been employed for a prolonged period of three years in the East Indies on board the Piedmontaise and Phoenix frigates, Capts. Dawson, John Bowen, and Wm. Henry Webley, he found that he had been promoted to the rank of Commander on 4 May in the previous year. He is the senior officer of his rank on the List of 1813.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1482, and Gaz. 1811, p. 1199.