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Iakovos Tombazis
A portrait of Iakovos Tombazis by Dionysios Tsokos
Native name
Ιάκωβος Τομπάζης
Nickname(s)
Yiakoumakis Γιακουμάκης
Born
c. 1782 Hydra, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died
1829 Hydra, First Hellenic Republic
Buried
Hydra
Allegiance
First Hellenic Republic
Service/branch
Hellenic Navy
Commands held
First Admiral of the Hydra fleet Themistoklis
Battles/wars
Greek War of Independence
Children
Georgios Tombazis
Other work
Member of the Filiki Etaireia
Iakovos "Yiakoumakis" Tombazis (Greek: Ιάκωβος Τομπάζης, c. 1782–1829) was a merchant and ship-owner from the Greek island of Hydra who became the first Admiral of the Hellenic Navy during the Greek War of Independence.
The Tombazis family migrated from Vourla, Smyrna to the island of Hydra in 1668.[1][2][3] It was originally named Yakoumakis (Greek: Γιακουμάκης).[1] Iakovos Tombazis' date of birth is not known but some historians suggest 1782. He was the son of Nikolaos Tombazis and brother of Emmanouil Tombazis. As a businessman, he was shrewd and was the first to build greenhouses in Greece. In 1818, he was initiated into the Filiki Eteria (Friendly Society) which was preparing the ground for the revolt. When the war broke out, his fellow islanders made him admiral of the fleet of Hydra. He took part in several clashes against the Sultan's Navy in the eastern Aegean and soon realized that the Greek warships, being mostly converted and armed merchantmen, could not face the Ottoman ships of the line in conventional combat. He therefore proposed the use of fireships instead, and sent Dimitrios Papanikolis to burn the Turkish frigate Moving Mountain anchored at Eresos on Lesbos. Tombazis met fellow Hydriote Andreas Miaoulis in 1822 and reportedly realized the man's military genius, proposing him as admiral of the fleet. After Tombazis withdrew from the admiralty, he continued to support the revolution with his ships and money.
Tombazis by Peter von Hess
He died in 1829.
The Greek destroyer Tombazis (D-215) was named for the Admiral in 1976.
^ abΤομπάζης, Ιάκωβος Ν. (1902). Αδελφοί Ιάκωβος και Μανώλης Τομπάζης : συμβολή εις την ιστορίαν της εθνικής παλιγγενεσίας (in Greek). Typois P. D. Sakellariou. p. 7.
^Jouanny, Robert A. (1975). Jean Moreas: ecrivain grec (in French). Lettres modernes. p. 59. ISBN 978-2-256-90750-0. Tombazis, arriva de Smyrne en 1668.
^Καργάκος, Σαράντος Ι (1999). Αλβανοί, Αρβανίτες, Ελληνες (in Greek). I. Siderēs. p. 158. ISBN 978-960-08-0172-9. Όμως στην Ύδρα εγκαταστάθηκαν οικογένειες και από μακρινές ελληνικές περιοχές, όπως η οικογένεια Γιακουμάκη, μετέπειτα Τομπάζη, που ήλθε το 1668 στην Ύδρα από τα Βουρλά της Σμύρνης.
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