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Richard Tracey (Royal Navy officer)

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Years of service
  
1852-1902

Awards
  
Order of the Bath

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Died
  
March 7, 1907

Rank
  
Admiral

Role
  
Royal Navy officer

Service/branch
  
Royal Navy

Name
  
Richard Tracey

Battles and wars
  
Crimean War


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Commands held
  
HMS Iron Duke HMS Sultan Malta Dockyard Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Battles/wars
  
Crimean War Late Tokugawa Shogunate conflicts

Admiral Sir Richard Edward Tracey KCB (24 January 1837 – 7 March 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Tracey joined the Royal Navy in 1852 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War. He took part in the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 and the Shimonoseki Campaign in 1864 during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate conflicts. British diplomat Ernest Satow, appointed as interpreter to Admiral Kuper on board HMS Euryalus during the Shimonoseki Campaign, noted Tracey's "love of books" and his "wide knowledge of modern languages, acquired by dint of sheer perseverance amid all the nosiy distractions of life on board ship".

At the request of the Bakamatsu Government and on the recommendation of the British Consul, Sir Harry Smith Parkes and Ernest Satow, Tracey was invited by them to assist in the organization of a naval training school at Tsukiji, Tokyo an institution that after the Meiji Restoration became the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.

Tracey subsequently became Commanding Officer of the battleship HMS Iron Duke, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, China, in 1881 and Commanding Officer of the ironclad warship HMS Sultan in 1884. In April 1885 Tracey became an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and in July was appointed to Portsmouth dockyard. He reached flag rank on 1 January 1888. He went on to be Second-in-Command of the Channel Squadron in 1889, Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1892 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1897 He was placed on the retired list 24 January 1902.

He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.

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Richard Tracey (Royal Navy officer) Wikipedia