A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tindal, Charles
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.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1814, p. 1486.