Captain's Naval Gold Medal awarded to Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood (1750-1810) for his services at the battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794. Obverse: Britannia, a spear in her left hand and a shield below, standing on the deck of an antique galley, her right foot resting on a helmet, crowned with a wreath by a winged victory. Reverse inscribed: ' *CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD ESQUIRE * CAPTAIN OF H.M.S. THE BARFLEUR ON THE I JUNE MDCCXCIV THE FRENCH FLEET DEFEATED'. The medal is fitted with a gold rim with a watch glass on each side to protect the surface. It is suspended by a loop and gold bar on a blue-edged white ribbon. Naval gold medals were awarded to those officers whom Lord Howe and Sir Richard Curtis considered had particularly distinguished themselves in this battle.