■ Russell Plummer looks at two well-known English paddle steamers which celebrate their centenaries in 2024:
■ The coal-fired River Dart-based Kingswear Castle is powered by a compound diagonal engine built in 1904 for an earlier vessel of the same name.
■ The larger Medway Queen, originally built for the New Medway Steam Packet Co, is undergoing restoration at Gillingham in Kent, with hours of work by volunteers keeping the project on course.
Praise all-round is due to the people who have kept the 250-passenger running into this milestone
