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Salcombe History Illustrated

(Higher resolution copies can be ordered by emailing info@salcombemuseum.org.uk. A small charge is made)

• Salcombe: Schooner Port ~ The Fruit Schooners & Deep Sea Traders
• Salcombe and the Great War
• The U-Boat War off the South Hams Coast 1915-18
• The Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster 1916
• Death of 'The Duchess' - The Loss of the Herzogin Cecilie in 1936
• Salcombe in the Second World War
• Salcombe Lifeboats ~150 Years of Saving Lives at Sea

Salcombe Maritime History papers

• Medieval Trade and Warfare
  
• Tudor and Stuart Trade and Shipping
  
• The Spanish Armada 1588
• Pirates and Privateers
  
• Salcombe and the Civil War
• The Newfoundland Cod Trade
• The Threat from France 1778-1783 and 1793-1815
• Salcombe and the Smuggling Trade
• The Trade of the Estuary in the early 19th century
• Salcombe in the 1920s by Alan Rodick
• Diary of a Salcombe Lady 1817-1852

Ships, Mariners and Wrecks

• List of Merchant Sailing Vessels built or owned in Salcombe Haven 1780-1912
• The Museum's Database of Sailing Vessels, Mariners and Shipwrecks
• Example of a Ship's History Report - The Schooner Juan
• Example of a Shipwreck History Report - The Belgian Steamer Louis Sheid 1939
• The Wreck of the Herzogin Cecilie: Kingsbridge Gazette transcripts

Children's Activities

• Build a ship
• Find a wreck
• Sail a ship
• Wreck a ship
• Make your own withy crab pot
  
  

Stories, Poems and Ballads

• _{How We Ran the Frenchman on the Mag by Walter J. Shaw}
• Poems and Ballads of Salcombe and the Kingsbridge Estuary

Posters

• Piracy and Smuggling Timeline
  
• The Fruit Schooners and Deep Sea Traders