The Tracey Mission was a Naval mission of the Royal Navy sent to Japan in 1867–1868. Taking place immediately prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the mission had been requested by the Shogunate in order to help develop its Navy, and more specifically to organize and superintend the Naval school at Tsukiji , Tokyo .
5-587: The mission was led by Commander, later Admiral, Sir Richard Tracey , and composed of several officers and warrant officers. Commander Tracey, who earlier in his career had served as a junior officer on HMS Euryalus , was a veteran of active operations at both the Bombardment of Kagoshima in August 1863 and the attack on Shimonoseki in September 1864. The Tracey mission was barely able to start work due to
10-1000: 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
15-640: 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
20-730: 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
25-474: The start of the Boshin War and returned to England , due to the promise of all foreign powers to remain neutral in the conflict. This United Kingdom military article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richard Tracey (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir Richard Edward Tracey KCB (24 January 1837 – 7 March 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of
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