A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Prust, Bartholomew
PRUST. (Lieutenant, 1822.)
Bartholomew Prust entered the Navy, 7 June, 1810, as Third-cl. Vol., on board La Nymphe 36, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, on the Leith station; attained soon afterwards the rating of Midshipman; and from Jan. 1811 until July, 1814, was employed in the Baltic, Channel, North Sea, West Indies, and North America, in the Ardent 64, bearing the flags of Rear-Admirals Philip Chas. Durham and Wm. Johnstone Hope, and Asia 74 and Tonnant 80, flag-ships of Admirals Wm. Brown and Sir Alex. Cochrane. He then joined the Superb 74, in which ship, after serving for a time with Rear-Admiral Hotham on the American coast, he fought under Capt. Chas. Ekins at the battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816. He remained in the Superb until Sept. 1818, and was afterwards employed, again in the Mediterranean, in the Révolutionnaire 46, Capt. Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew. As Lieutenant, a rank he attained 25 March, 1822, he served, from 10 July, 1827, until 1831, in the Coast Blockade, with his name on the books of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, both commanded by Capt. Hugh Pigot. He has since been on half-pay.