Admiral
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Sir John Kingcome,
KCB (14 February 1793 – 7 August 1871) was a
Royal Navy
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officer who went on to be
Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
Naval career
Kingcome joined the
Royal Navy
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in 1808
and was present at the destruction of the
French
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ships during the
Battle of the Basque Roads
The Battle of the Basque Roads, also known as the Battle of Aix Roads ( French: ''Bataille de l'île d'Aix'', also ''Affaire des brûlots'', rarely ''Bataille de la rade des Basques''), was a major naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in t ...
the following year.
He also served in the
First Anglo-Burmese War
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from 1824 to 1826.
[
Promoted to ]Captain
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in 1838, he commanded HMS ''Belleisle'' during the First Opium War
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in 1841.[ He later took charge of HMS ''Simoom'' and HMS ''St George'' and then commanded HMS ''Royal William''][ in the ]Baltic Sea
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during the Crimean War
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.[ He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1862 and was made full Admiral on the Reserved List in 1869.][
]Kingcome Inlet Kingcome Inlet is one of the lesser principal fjords of the British Columbia Coast, north and east of Broughton Island. It is sixth in sequence of the major saltwater fjords north from the 49th parallel near Vancouver and similar in width, on av ...
on the British Columbia Coast
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, nickname = "The Coast"
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Canada
, subdivision_type1 = Province
, subdivision_name1 = British ...
is named after him as are other placenames in the area.
See also
*Kingcome (disambiguation) Kingcome may refer to:
People
*Brian Kingcome (1917–1994), British flying ace in World War II
*John Kingcome, (d.1871), British admiral and commander of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy
* William Kingcome, nephew of Admiral John Kingcome and ...
References
External links
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1793 births
1871 deaths
Royal Navy admirals
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath