9 Jan 2012: Letter: We do not advocate the large-scale return of freight-carrying boats to the historic narrow canal system, but the greater use and development of the UK's large-scale commercial waterways
10 Oct 2011: Originally published in the Guardian on 10 October 1970: The Fraserburgh lifeboat was incapable of withstanding the conditions she met when she went to the rescue of the Danish fishing boat Opal, and was capsized by a wave more than 30ft high
31 Aug 2011: Jonathan Kent: Living on canals is a model of low-impact, sustainable development but the trend of doing away with moorings must be reversed
17 Jun 2011: Letters: Shieldhall is one of the very last of the steam-powered freighters of the type that maintained world trade for well over a century and faced the gruesome U-boat menace of the second world war