The 117-year-old Brixham trawler Pilgrim took pride of place in the Dart last weekend after a week-long stay on the river, culminating in a reception celebration.

Pilgrim dropped anchor in the Dart a fortnight ago after travelling from her home base in Brixham on one of her first voyages following the completion of a £1.4m restoration project.

The 78ft gaff-rigged sailing trawler arrived in time for the town's Try a Boat weekend when she was thrown open for the public to visit and look over her.

She spent last week moored upriver on one of the naval college buoys before BRNC commander Cpt Jerry Kyd and other college sailors were taken out for an evening sail.

Last weekend she was moored up on Dartmouth Town Quay where the public were once again invited to give her a once over before she returned to Brixham.

On Friday, she hosted an afternoon reception which included mayor Paul Allen as one of the guests.

The old trawler was left rotting in Sweden until she was spotted and brought back to the UK in 1999. Since then the Pilgrim Preservation Trust secured a £950,000 heritage lottery to completely restore the old craft.

After two years of restoration work, Pilgrim was floated out of the Butler and Co dry dock at Old Mill Creek, Dartmouth, in September 2011 before being towed to Brixham for the work to be completed.

That was finally completed in April and the week before her Dartmouth visit she went out on her first catered sail – carrying a group of managers and staff from a Nuneaton engineering firm which had been instrumental in restoring her engines.