(Left) To welcome home Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, after her capsize in 1983 and complete survey and overhaul which followed, piper Gordon McCormack, landlord of The Shipwright's Arms, boarded the station's relief lifeboat and bagpiped her back to her mooring. The Baltic Exchange can be seen coming up the estuary with a strong escort of local boats.

photograph by courtesy of South Devon Press Services.