1906 - wooden flyboat (ie "express"), built for the Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Company, fleet no 598

1923 - acquired by LMS, fleet no 102

mid 1950s-80s - converted to an hotel boat

Subject of huge restoration project by Shropshire Union Flyboat Restoration Society. See The Shopshire Union Fly-Boat Project (link is external) website.

Winner of the HNBOC Keay Award 2006.

2012: Saturn carried the runner bearing the Olympic Torch over the famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal. Volunteer members of the Shropshire Union Fly-boat Restoration Society bow-haulled the boat over the Aqueduct as they did at the 200th Anniversary celebration of this World Heritage Site

Saturn at Gnosall, July 2024 (pic R Prettyman)
Saturn at Ellesmere Port gathering, April 2007 (pic R Prettyman)
Saturn at Ellesmere Port gathering, April 2007 (pic R Prettyman)
Saturn, Chester, 2001 (pic H Arnold)
Saturn, Chester, 2001 (pic H Arnold)
Saturn, Kidderminster, 1940s (pic R Hughes)
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