{"id":539318,"date":"2025-10-31T07:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539318\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:08:32","slug":"prince-charles-presents-duke-of-gloucester-cup-contact-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/539318\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles presents Duke of Gloucester Cup \u2013 CONTACT magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"screen-reader-text juiz_sps_maybe_hidden_text\">Share the post &#8220;Prince Charles presents Duke of Gloucester Cup&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/share_post2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"66\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales today presented the Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup to the crew of Hydrographic Ship (HS) Blue Crew at HMAS\u00a0Cairns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>CAPTION<\/strong>:\u00a0HRH Prince Charles with the winners of the Duke Gloucester\u2019s Cup for 2017, Hydrographic Ship Blue Crew on the flight deck of HMAS Leeuwin in Cairns. Photo by Petty Officer Phil Cullinan.<\/p>\n<p>Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup is awarded annually to the Royal Australian Navy unit that has demonstrated the highest level of overall proficiency in the previous year and is customarily presented by the Governor-General.<\/p>\n<p>As the winner of the Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup for 2017, Hydrographic Ship Blue Crew had the rare honour of receiving this significant award from The Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Australian Fleet Rear Admiral Jonathan Mead said the perpetual trophy recognised exemplary performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/contactmagazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/patreon_subs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"118\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup has a rich 71-year history as the highest annual award for outstanding service to the Royal Australian Navy,\u201d Rear Admiral Mead said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHS Blue Crew has succeeded in all respects in 2017 and can be justifiably proud of their achievements and for being the first hydrographic unit to win this prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HS Blue Crew was awarded the prize for consistent high performance in her core operational and hydrographic mission, successful integration into Exercise Talisman Sabre 17 and the rapid and effective support to an allied partner during the search and subsequent recovery operations of a downed military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Crew\u2019s Commanding Officer Lieutenant Commander Dean Battilana said winning the Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup capped off a busy and successful year for the ship\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honoured to be rewarded for our efforts \u2013 and to receive the Duke of Gloucester\u2019s Cup from His Royal Highness makes it even more special,\u201d Lieutenant Commander Battilana said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlue Crew has delivered on everything that I and higher command has asked and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award is a testament to the ship\u2019s company\u2019s knowledge, skills and dedication to duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>\n.<\/p>\n<p>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryshop.com.au\/?ref=CONTACT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/militaryshop_front_centre888.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"screen-reader-text juiz_sps_maybe_hidden_text\">Share the post &#8220;Prince Charles presents Duke of Gloucester Cup&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 9378 Total Views  6 Views Today <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share the post &#8220;Prince Charles presents Duke of Gloucester Cup&#8221; His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-539318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115467525657254620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}