Orders, Decorations and Medals

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (B. Prust, Midshipman) expert restoration to edge bruise over part of rank, otherwise very fine £1000-1200

Bartholomew Prust entered the Navy on 7 June 1810, as a 3rd Class Volunteer aboard La Nymphe 36 on the Leith station, and subsequently served as Midshipman in the Baltic, Channel, North Sea, West Indies, and North America, in the Ardent 64, bearing the flags of Rear Admirals Philip Durham and William Johnstone Hope, and Asia 74 and Tonnant 80, flag ships of Admirals William Brown and Sir Alex. Cochrane. He then joined the Superb 74, in which ship he served on the American coast under Rear-Admiral Hotham, and under Captain Charles Ekin at the battle of Algiers on 27 August 1816. He remained in the Superb until September 1818, and was afterwards employed in the Mediterranean in the Révolutionnaire 46 under Captain Hon. Fleetwood Pellew. He attained the rank of Lieutenant in March 1822, and served in the Coast Blockade from July 1827 until 1831, with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Captain Hugh Pigot.