A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ballantyne, John
BALLANTYNE. (Retired Commander, 1843. f-p., 19; h-p., 34.)
John Ballantyne was born 20 Aug. 1775.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 July, 1794, as A.B., on board the Glory 98, Capt. Thos. Larcom, bearing the flag in the Channel of Rear-Admiral Bourmaster. Proceeding subsequently to the West Indies in the Prince of Wales 98, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Harvey, he assisted as Midshipman at the reduction of Trinidad, and the attack upon Porto Rico, in 1797; after which he became attached, as Master’s Mate, to the Weazle and Ambuscade, both commanded by Capt. Wm. D’Urban, in the Mediterranean, and served, from Jan. 1805, to Feb. 1808, as Sub-Lieutenant, in the Steady gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Arthur Stow, on the Channel and South America stations. Having been awarded a commission, dated 4 June, 1807, he subsequently joined – 5 March, 1808, the Proselyte bomb, Capt. Henry Jas. Lyford, in the North Sea – 1 Sept. 1809, the Chanticleer 10, Capt. Rich. Spear, off Yarmouth – and, 18 Feb. 1814, the Ariel 18, Capt. Dan. Ross, on the coast of Africa. Commander Ballantyne, who has not been employed since Jan. 1815, accepted his present rank 10 Feb. 1843.