A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tindale, Joseph
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 Russell at Yarmouth – 28 July, 1804, to the command of the Fly-by-Night hired armed lugger, engaged in watching the Boulogne flotilla and in conveying despatches to Lord Keith – 28 Dec. 1804, to the Jamaica 24, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Lysaght, under whom he assisted in escorting convoys to Newfoundland, Lisbon, and Gibraltar – 26 Nov. 1807, to the Éclair 18, Capt. Chas. Gordon, fitting at Chatham – and in Dec. 1807 and Nov. 1808, to the command of the Crane 4 and Lord Cochrane hired armed brig. The Crane was employed in taking despatches to the coasts of Spain and Portugal; the Lord Cochrane was for five years and a half stationed between Portland and the Dodman for the protection of the coasting trade and the fishing vessels. She beat off during that period two French privateers and made one recapture. Since he left her in May, 1814, Lieut. Tindale has not been afloat. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 30 Oct. 1837. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.