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Authorities have identified the 59-year-old woman who drowned in the ocean off Island Beach State Park on Monday night. Elizabeth Treharne, of Toms River, was swimming near Area 22 around 8:20 p.m. when she was swept away, officials said. Treharne was at the beach with her husband but went in the water alone and was likely caught in a rip current, the Coast Guard and State Park Police said Tuesday. The U.S. Coast Guard as well as the State Police’s marine unit searched by air and water before the swimmer was recovered at about 11:05 a.m. Tuesday near Area 21. She was found by searchers in a he…