A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Allen, John (c)
ALLEN. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
John Allen entered the Navy (from, we believe, the R.N. College) 23 Aug. 1824; passed his examination in 1828; became Mate, in 1838, of the Camelion 10, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Martin Hunter, on the South America station; and was promoted, while serving in the Coast Guard, 15 Jan. 1841. His appointments have since been – 13 July, 1841, to the Wanderer 16, Capt. Geo. Henry Seymour, in the East Indies – 6 July, 1844, to the Coast Guard – and, 18 June, 1845, to the command of the Tartar Revenue-vessel, in which he is now serving.
Lieut. Allen is Senior of 1841.