Built for speed
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Built for speed
Image: © John M Taken: 10 Sep 2016
The streamlined stern on Shroppie flyboat Saturn is unusual for canal boats and reflects her thoroughbred status. Saturn is a restored Shropshire Union flyboat built in 1906 for the cheese trade from Shropshire and Cheshire. She continued in service horsedrawn until the 1950s. Fly-boats were the express transport of the canal system operated by a crew of four working day and night to strict timetables with priority over other traffic except passenger boats. They would collect and deliver goods to warehouses along the route.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.842345
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-2.964539