97815272185121
Salcombe in the 19th century: a major port in the trades of small ships and, from the very first days of the merchant schooners, their port, perhaps more so than any other… The Fruitship Port in Chief!
in this, the first comprehensive account of Salcombe’s heyday as a shipbuilding and ship owning port, famed for its clipper fruit schooners, Roger Barrett, the curator of Salcombe Maritime Museum, tells the story of the Haven’s Maritime community and describes the ships and their trades and the men and women who built, owned and sailed them.