About Salcombe distilling company

About company

Salcombe’s shipyard industry matures, and the yards turn out large numbers of ‘Salcombe Fruiters’ to support the lucrative fruit trade. These small schooners were fine-lined vessels built for speed and specially adapted to race home with cargoes of highly perishable fruit from the Azores, Iberia and the Mediterranean to the ports of London, Liverpool, Bristol and Hull.