Overview
Salcombe Maritime Museum preserves Salcombe's history as a schooner port, coastal community, holiday harbour and centre of rescue at sea. It keeps the working harbour visible beneath the later image of Salcombe as mainly a place for recreation
What this place is
preserves Salcombe's history as a schooner port, coastal community, holiday harbour and centre of rescue at sea
People and events
Sailors carried fruit and other cargoes while fishermen, lifeboat crews, shipwrights and families supported the port
How it was used
Displays follow deep-sea trade, wrecks, wartime losses, passenger steamers and the change from commerce to leisure sailing
What survives
Ship models, paintings, tools, photographs, lifeboat records, wreck objects and sailors' belongings survive
Why it mattered
It keeps the working harbour visible beneath the later image of Salcombe as mainly a place for recreation
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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