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{{short description|British naval officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox military person
| name          = Nick Tindal
| image         = Nick Tindal reviews CCF (cropped).jpg
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| allegiance    = United Kingdom
| branch        = {{navy|United Kingdom}}
| serviceyears  = 1986-2020
| rank          = [[Commodore (Royal Navy)|Commodore]]
| unit          = 
| commands      = {{HMS|Dumbarton Castle|P265|6}} <br /> [[BNS Karotoa|HMS Alderney]] <br /> [[RNAS Yeovilton]]
| awards        = 
}}
[[Commodore (Royal Navy)|Commodore]] '''Nicholas Henry Charles Tindal''' is a senior [[Royal Navy]] officer who served as the commanding officer of [[RNAS Yeovilton]] until July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/april/04/170404-new-co-yeovilton|title=A New Commanding Officer at the helm {{!}} Royal Navy|website=www.royalnavy.mod.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=NEW COMMANDING OFFICER AT RNAS YEOVILTON|url=https://www.fleetairarmoa.org/news/new-commanding-officer-at-rnas-yeovilton|access-date=2021-01-19|website=www.fleetairarmoa.org}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Commissioned in 1986, Tindal gained his bridge watch-keeping certificate and first experience of maritime aviation while serving as a fighter controller in {{HMS|Ark Royal|R07|6}}. Awarded his pilot's 'wings' in 1989, his early aviation career included tours flying the anti-submarine warfare [[Westland Sea King|Sea King]] ([[814 Naval Air Squadron]]) and multi-role [[Westland Lynx|Lynx]] ([[815 Naval Air Squadron]]) helicopters on board a variety of [[aircraft carrier]]s, [[frigate]]s, [[destroyer]]s, and [[Royal Fleet Auxiliary]] vessels, conducting over 1000 deck landings.

He is also a [[principal warfare officer]], specialised in above-water warfare and was {{HMS|Argyll|F231|6}}{{'s}} operations officer. He has commanded the [[corvette]] {{HMS|Dumbarton Castle|P265|6}}, which, as the RN's only permanent warship in the South Atlantic, played a key role in looking after UK interests in the [[Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute|Falkland Islands]] and [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands|South Georgia]]. He also had command of {{HMS|Alderney|P278|6}}, an offshore patrol vessel based in the UK to support the policing of the UK's [[Exclusive economic zone|economic exclusion zone]]. Ashore, he is an alumnus of the Advanced Command and Staff Course, gaining a [[King's College London]] master's degree in defence studies. Subsequent staff appointments have included a tour at the [[Permanent Joint Headquarters]], where he led the operations team supporting the UK's overseas counter-terrorism effort and two tours at the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]], first in the directorate of Joint Capability leading Defence's Carrier Strike concept development and then, on promotion to captain in 2012, as the operations directorate assistant head responsible for operational capability advice in support of ongoing and contingent operations.

He has had RN staff tours as the pilots appointer in 2001 and as Navy Command's aviation division chief of staff in 2011–2012. He has also had two exchange appointments with the [[United States Navy]], first as part of the [[United States Fleet Forces Command|US Atlantic Fleet]] team responsible for the embarked training and certification of all 'East Coast' carrier and expeditionary strike groups. Second, immediately prior to taking command of RNAS Yeovilton, he was the Royal Navy's first-ever officer to work for the [[Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet|Commander US Pacific Fleet]] based in [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]], an admiral responsible for US maritime operations across half the globe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/documents/profiles/tindal-nick.pdf|title=Commodore Nick Tindal - Royal Navy Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

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