 Whilst there, he married Susannah Apreece, daughter of an army colonel.The marriage produced six children, two of whom survived into adulthood; Frances, who later married Temple West (Vice Admiral Temple West) and George, who followed his father into the Navy.In 1701, Balchen was again at sea, commanding the small fireships HMS "Firebrand" and then HMS "Vulcan" with Sir George Rooke's fleet off the Spanish coast at the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession.