This page contains some miscellaneous details of the ships on which Frederick Treacher served.
HMS Attentive II was a base station at Dover from 1904 to 1914 and then a shore establishment from 1914 to 1919
HMS Firequeen was a 212 foot, steel hulled freighter, originally named Candance and was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1882. She was commissioned with the name Firequeen as a general depot ship in Portsmouth in December 1899. From 1 Feb 1905 she was the port admiral’s flagship. She was sold by the Royal Navy in 1920. She later sank in the Bahamas and is now known as the Mahony Wreck.
HMS Imogene was an unarmed Special Services Vessel of 460 tons. She was laid down as the Iron Screw Yacht Jacamar, purchased by the Admiralty while on the stocks and launched on the Clyde by Barclay Curle & Co in Yard No 309, on 20th April 1882. On14 May 1919 she was sold to Ledger Hill and renamed Impey. In February 1923 she was sold on as Julius.
She served in the Mediterranean, and during WWI carried the Gallipoli commander, Hamilton, to Suvla Bay in 1915.
HMS Victory I was the Portsmouth Naval Barracks. The Barracks opened in 1903, when the Flag CinC Portsmouth moved from HMS Excellent to the ship HMS Victory and then to shore. The Barracks were then given the name HMS Victory. On 1 Aug 1974 the barracks were renamed HMS Nelson.