AGM and Talk 'South West Fruit Schooners
Via Zoom
Saturday 17 April 2021 at 2.30pm
Our AGM at 2.30pm is followed by a talk (postponed from February 2020) given by Roger Barrett entitled ‘Fruit Schooners’. Built for speed, the clipper fruit schooners of the nineteenth century were the ocean racing yachts of the day, carrying home cargoes of highly perishable fruit from the Azores, the Mediterranean and the Bahamas. For many years Salcombe and its neighbour Brixham in the South Hams of Devon were the dominant players but, in the later days of the trade, Fowey established a reputation for producing fast fruit schooners such as the Jane Slade and Silver Spray.
Roger Barrett is the curator of both Salcombe Maritime Museum and Salcombe Lifeboat Museum and the author of a number of books on local maritime history including ‘Salcombe: Schooner Port’, which tells the story of the Salcombe schooners and the trades they engaged in.
