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.
TINLING. (Captain, 1843.)
Edward Burnaby Tinling entered the Navy 6 July, 1814; served as Midshipman in the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816, and in the Curlew 18, Capt. Wm. Walpole, in an expedition conducted in 1819-20, under the orders of Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier and Major-General Sir Wm. Grant Keir, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf; passed his examination in 1822; and was made Lieutenant, 6 May, 1825, into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, in the West Indies. He returned home towards the close of the same year; and was subsequently appointed – 10 Sept. 1829, to the Donegal 78, Capts. Sir Jahleel Brenton, John Dick, and Arthur Fanshawe, employed on the Home, Mediterranean, and Lisbon stations – 24 June, 1834, to the Orestes 18, Capts. Henry John Codrington and Julius Jas. Farmer Newell, in which vessel he returned to the Mediterranean and there became First-Lieutenant – and 17 June, 1836, and 9 March, 1839, to the command of the Alban steamer and Charybdis brig, both in the West Indies. While on the station last named he was made Commander, 25 March, 1841, into the Magnificent receiving-ship at Jamaica, Commodores Peter John Douglas and Edw. Boxer. He was appointed, 23 Dec. following, Second-Captain of the Camperdown 104, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Brace at Sheerness; and was advanced to his present rank 27 Dec. 1843. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Tinling married, 21 May, 1844, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Francis Brace, Esq., and niece of the late Vice-Admiral Sir E. Brace, K.C.B. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
TISDALL. (Captain, 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Archibald Tisdall entered the Navy, in Oct. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Excellent 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford, with whom he continued employed in the Channel, West Indies, and Mediterranean, as Midshipman, in the same ship and in the Castor frigate and Spencer 74, until Jan. 1806. On 27 March following, having fought in the Northumberland 74, flag-ship of Hon. Alex. Cochrane, in the action off St. Domingo, he was nominated Acting-Sub-Lieutenant of the Hawke, Capt. Jas. Askew. On 28 June and 7 Oct. in the same year he became an acting and a confirmed Lieutenant of the Elephant 74, Capt. Geo. Dundas, also in the West Indies; he served next in the Mediterranean, from Oct. 1807 until April, 1810, in the Sultan and Excellent 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Griffith; and on 10 Nov. in the latter year and 7 April, 1811, he was appointed to the Harpy 18, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court, and Scipion 74, flag-ship of Hon. Robt. Stopford, both on the Cape of Good Hope station. While attached to the Sultan he assisted in her boats at the cutting-out of several vessels near Genoa, and united, in Oct. 1809, in a pursuit which led to the self-destruction, near Cape Cette, of the ships-of-the-line Robuste and Lion. As Senior-Lieutenant of the Scipion Mr. Tisdall co-operated in 1811 in the reduction of Java, where he served in the batteries at the taking of Batavia, and was severely wounded as Aide-de-Camp to General Gillespie at the storming of Djojocarta, On the surrender of the island he was ordered, 28 Sept. 1811, to take the command, which he retained for a few months, of the flotilla of gun-boats stationed there. He obtained a second promotal commission 16 Feb. 1813; was appointed, 17 June, 1814, to the Rinaldo sloop, in the West Indies; and was nominated, 9 April, 1815, Acting-Captain, on that station, of the Talbot 20. He was officially posted 14 July following (a fortnight before the Talbot was paid off); and accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
TOBY. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 15; h-p., 2.)
Henry Collett Toby entered the Navy, 27 April, 1830, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Conflict 12, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Smithers, fitting for the coast of Africa, where he attained the rating of Midshipman in April, 1831, and removed, in May, 1830, to the Pelorus 16, Capt. Rich. Meredith. In the Conflict he assisted, 24 Nov. 1830, at the capture, off the Rio Pongos, of the Ninfa Portuguese piratical schooner. He left the Pelorus 26 Sept. 1835; and was next employed – from 3 Oct. 1835 until 8 Jan. 1836, in the Russell 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Henry Dillon, on the Lisbon station – from 2 Sept. 1836 until 13 March, 1840, in the Bellerophon 80, Capts. Sam. Jackson and Chas. Jas. Austen, in the Mediterranean – and from 7 Aug. 1840 until 12 Feb. 1842, in the Wilberforce steamer, Capt. Wm. Allen, part of a disastrous expedition sent up the river Niger. He was then, having passed his examination 6 Feb. 1837, presented with a commission dated back to 23 Nov. 1841. His succeeding appointments were – 15 July, 1842, 27 Jan. 1843, and 18 Feb. 1844, to the Queen 110, flag-ship of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Snake 16, Capt. Hon. Walter Bourchier Dovereux, and Warspite 50, Capt. Provo Wm. Parry Wallis, all in the Mediterranean – 12 Feb. 1845, after nine months of half-pay, to the Styx steam-sloop, Capt. Wm. Windham Hornby, on the same station – 20 June, 1845, again to the Queen, bearing the flag of Sir John West at Devonport – 26 Jan. 1846, as First, to the Rapid 10, Capt. Henry J. W. S. P. Gallwey, fitting for the coast of Africa – 1 April following, to the Coast Guard – 25 Jan. 1847, as Additional, to the Hibernia 104, flagship of Sir Wm. Parker in the Mediterranean – and 5 March, 1847, to the Canopus 84, Capt. Fairfax Moresby, employed on particular service. The Canopus was paid off in the spring of 1848.
Lieut. Toby married, 9 Aug. 1848, Emma, daughter of the late Capt. Bissett, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
TOD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
John Tod, born 22 Dec. 1789, is third son of Alex. Tod, Esq., of Finfin, Morayshire, N.B.; and brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel Tod. This officer entered the Navy, 4 March, 1807, as L.M., on board the Astrea 32, Capt. Jas. Dunbar with whom, after escorting the Earl of Pembroke as Ambassador to the Court of Russia and assisting at the siege of Copenhagen, he removed to the Leonidas 38, and sailed for the Mediterranean, where he became Midshipman, in Nov. 1808 and Feb. 1811 of the Montagu and Repulse 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Rich. Hussey Mowbray, and in Nov. 1813 Master’s Mate of the Rainbow 26, Capts. Gawen Wm. Hamilton and John Cornish. In April, 1810, he co-operated in command of a gun-boat, and had his long gun dismounted and several of his men wounded, at the siege of Santa Maura; and on 2 May, 1813, he served with the boats of the Repulse and the Volontaire and Undaunted frigates, covered by the Redwing 18, at the cutting-out of a well-protected convoy, lying in the port of Morjean, near Toulon. On the latter occasion, having boarded a vessel which was moored by a rope from her mast-head to the rocks, he ran up the mast,
