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. 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. 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. ==See also==