A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Treacy, Joshua
TREACY. (Retired Captain, 1844. f-p., 21; h-p., 46.)
Joshua Treacy died 15 April, 1845, at Whitehaven. This officer entered the Navy, 21 Nov. 1778, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Infernal, Capt. Allen, employed at Deptford and Spithead. Five months after he had been discharged from that vessel he joined the Triumph 74, Capt. Philip Affleck, attached to the force in the Channel. Her he left in July, 1780; from which period he did not again go afloat until received, as A.B., in Jan. 1793, on board the Terrible 74, Capts. Skeffington Lutwidge, Geo. Campbell, John Miller, and Sir Rich. Bickerton. Attaining the rating of Midshipman in the following April, he served in that capacity in a gun-boat, and on shore in the batteries, at the occupation, in the course of the same year, of Toulon. He was afterwards, 14 March and 13 July, 1795, present in Hotham’s partial actions with the French fleet off Genoa and the Hyères Islands. He continued in the Terrible, part of the time as Master’s Mate, and latterly in the Channel, until made Lieutenant, 13 Dec. 1797, into the Busy 18, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, stationed in the North Sea; and he was subsequently appointed – 19 Oct. 1798, to the Proselyte 32, Capt. Geo. Fowke, in which frigate (he did not join her until March, 1799) he cruized on the coast of Ireland and then accompanied the expedition to Holland, where he assisted in landing the troops under Sir Ralph Abercromby – 24 April and 27 Nov. 1800, to the Prince and Prince George 98’s, bearing each the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Channel – 27 May, 1802, to the Glatton 50, Capt. Jas. Colnett, employed at first in conveying convicts to New South Wales, and next as flag-ship, at Leith, to Admirals Rich. Rodney Bligh and Jas. Vashon – 18 Aug. 1804, to the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of his patron Sir C. Cotton in the Channel – 4 Aug. 1807, to the Monmouth 64, Capt. Edw. Durnford King, on the eve of her departure for the East Indies – 29 Oct. following, as First, to the Swiftsure 74, fitting for the flag of Sir John Borlase Warren, wliom he accompanied to the coast of North America – and 12 Sept. 1808 and 4 May, 1810, to the Hibernia 120, and San Josef again, flag-ships of Sir C. Cotton on the Lisbon and Mediterranean stations. He was promoted to the rank of Commander 21 March, 1812; and placed on the list of Retired Captains 13 Sept. 1844.