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Prize medal, HMS Excellent (gunnery)
Uninscribed. Obverse: Head of the Commodore (L) Maltese cross (L) an inscribed scroll below Legend: "JAMES.GRAHAM. GOODENOUGH". Inscription: "SANTA CRUZ" (R) "1875" below "AD.SANGUINEM". Reverse: a draped figure of a woman on her left knee, applying a scale to the breech of a heavy gun with her right, a compass in her left hand; above the stern of a ship, inscribed: "Excellent" firing, both broadsides. Legend: "MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR GUNNERY. INSTITUTED A.D.1878".
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Object Details
| ID: | MED0310 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Prize medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Cockerell, F P |
| Date made: | 1878 |
| People: | Goodenough, James Graham |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 50 mm |
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