Jacob Binckes was a Dutch States Navy officer. Jacob himself used the name Benckes. He was a seafarer trading mostly on Norway in the transport of wood. In 1665 Jacob Binckes started his service with the Admiralty of Amsterdam. His first assignment as a captain was to escort a convoy to Norway. The next year, he helped to secure the River Elbe in northern Germany, near Glückstadt, in the interest of Dutch merchant shipping. As a captain he participated in the Raid on the Medway in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. With his frigate Essen Jacob Binckes is part of the taskforce on the Medway.