Royal Naval Biography/Treacy, Joshua
JOSHUA TREACY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Dec. 1797; and served for many years under the late Admiral Sir Charles Cotton. On that officer striking his flag in 1807, Mr. Treacy accepted an offer of Sir John Borlase Warren, and proceeded with him to Halifax, as first of his flag-ship, the Swiftsure 74. When Sir Charles Cotton assumed the command on the Lisbon station, after the emigration of the House of Braganza, he again applied for his old follower; who accordingly hastened to join the Hibernia 110, from which ship he was removed, with the admiral’s retinue, into the San Josef 112, on the Mediterranean station, in 1810. Lieutenant Treacy was made a commander on the 21st Mar. 1812.