Peacock (narrowboat)
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peacock-narrowboat-298-18014814
title:
Peacock (narrowboat)
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Peacock is a British narrowboat. She was built as a flyboat for Fellows Morton & Clayton (FMC) at Saltley, Birmingham in 1915, as fleet number 102. FMC had been using a fleet of steam fly boats since 1889, but in 1912 introduced motor boats such as Peacock into their fleet. 'Fly' boats work day and night non-stop, and with an all-male crew the cabins were more spartan than those of long distance family crewed boats. Peacock worked with FMC's northern fleet until nationalisation in 1948. She was
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British narrowboat built in 1915
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_(narrowboat)
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2022-01-07T18:53:05Z
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