What links Father Ted, James Bond and an abandoned port in remote South Georgia?

The answer, surprisingly, is a shipyard found nine miles inland in the market town of Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Today, it is a quiet mooring beside an industrial estate. But on the eve of World War One, the Grovehill Shipyard, on the banks of the River Hull, was a powerhouse of the British trawler-building industry.

Among the ships built there were the MV Plassey, the wreck seen in the opening credits of the TV comedy Father Ted, and the Thorina, a trawler shown being blown up at the beginning of the Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Perhaps better-known today is the Viola, an Edwardian steam trawler now beached in South Georgia, almost 8,000 miles (12,500km) from home.

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