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Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (B. Prust, Midshipman) edge bruise or possible test mark, otherwise better than very fine £1600-1800

Bartholomew Prust entered the Navy on 7 June 1810, as Third Class Volunteer, on board La Nymphe on the Leith station. He attained the rating of Midshipman soon afterwards and was employed in the Baltic, Channel, North Sea, West Indies, and North America, in the Ardent, Asia and Tonnant. He then joined the Superb in which ship, after serving for a time with Rear-Admiral Hotham on the American coast, he fought under Captain Charles Ekins at the battle of Algiers on 27 August 1816. He subsequently served aboard the Révolutionnaire in the Mediterranean under Captain Fleetwood Pellew, and was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant in March 1822. He served from July 1827 until 1831, in the Coast Blockade on board Ramillies and Talavaera, after which he was placed on half-pay.