A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tincombe, George
TINCOMBE. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 17- h-p., 30.)
George Tincombe was born in Nov. 1784, at Sidmouth, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 March, 1800, as 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.