The Shop no longer sells items that displayed the previous design image. It is early days with the new design and once the finer details have been agreed it is anticipated that further merchandise, including clothing and miniatures of the new monument design will be offered for sale.
Keep an eye on the website and if you have ideas as what items you think should be offered for sale then fire them in via the ‘Contact Us’ page.
Home Waters – Royal, Royal Canadian and US Navy Mine Forces Battling U-Boats in World War I
Available now to help mark the end of the First World War. Co-author Rob Hoole will be donating all his proceeds to the Vernon Minewarfare & Diving Monument.
The richly illustrated 428 page paperback 'Home Waters - RN, RCN and USN Mine Forces Battling U-Boats in World War I', containing a foreword by highest ever ranking RN MCDO Rear Admiral Paddy McAlpine CBE among others, is now available here from Heritage Books in the USA at a cost of $74.99 (currently about £53) including overseas P&P.
Alternatively, email Rob Hoole at rob.hoole@vernon-monument.org and he will send you a copy, inscribed if desired, on receipt of £30, including UK P&P. He will donate £10 towards the Vernon Minewarfare & Diving Monument for each copy purchased.
Captain Mick Edwards OAM RAN, National President of the Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers’ Association (RANCDA), has sent this message from the Association’s AGM in Tasmania.
“Today the RANCDA Board resolved to donate $500AUD to the Vernon memorial.”
Thanks Mick and thanks to all our Aussie buddies down under.
Prince Harry at the Defence Diving School in October 2007
Prince Harry attended the reception for Project Vernon, the campaign to install a monument dedicated to the heritage of HMS Vernon, at Trinity House on Wednesday 19 July 2017. His Royal Highness is Commodore-in-Chief, Small Ships and Diving, Royal Naval Command. The reception took place ahead of the Vernon Monument ‘Falklands 35’ Charity Dinner, marking the 35th anniversary of the Falklands War and attended by a number of Falkland veterans.