Coast - Series 4 - Rosyth to Hull

On the final leg of his journey, Neil Oliver visits the bustling port of Rosyth to explore the staggering scale of Britain's global sea trade, now worth 340 billion pounds a year. Neil also recreates a legendary 'lifeboat drag' from nearly a 150 years ago at the village of Cullercoats. It's claimed the women of the village dragged a heavy wooden lifeboat for miles over a headland to save a stricken ship in a mighty storm. Neil challenges the local lassies of today to live up to the reputation of their great grannies. Miranda Krestovnikoff is the first Coast presenter to land on the Bass Rock, a stunning seabird paradise described by Sir David Attenborough as 'one of the wildlife wonders of the world', but one which is made near-inaccessible by a combination of tide and weather. Miranda joins a team trying to film the underwater action of diving gannets, which hit the water at up to 60mph. Mark Horton is on the holy island of Lindisfarne, reliving the first Viking raid on British shores in June 793AD. He discovers how the marauding Norsemen galvanised the warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into coming together and forming the English nation. Mark also goes in search of the remains of the 'Town That Never Was' a grand Edwardian seaside resort, intended to rival Whitby and Scarborough. Construction began in a blaze of publicity in the dramatic coastal setting of Ravenscar, but why was the town never finished? And Dick Strawbridge meets the men and women who used to work as skilled riveters, building the mighty vessels for which the North East's shipyards were famed. Their hard-won skills were eventually made redundant by the 'Liberty Ships' from across the Atlantic, built quickly and cheaply using American mass production methods.