A ship wrecked on Bermuda’s reefs was featured this week in a major BBC series on Scottish-built vessels that steamed their way into the history books.

A team from BBC Scotland travelled to the Island last year to film the remains of Confederate US civil war blockade runner the Nola.

The TV series, “Clydebuilt: The Ships that Made the Commonwealth”, is presented by Scots actor and TV presenter David Hayman. Bermuda’s Curator of Wrecks, Philippe Rouja, was interviewed for the programme and took the crew to visit the wreck of the Nola.

The speedy ship, built in the famous River Clyde shipyards in Glasgow, Scotland, grounded on the reefs off Dockyard and sank in 1863.

The Nola, which used several other names in a bid to evade capture, was also known as the Montana and Paramount.

The film crew also looked at the history of the Robert E Lee, a notorious Confederate paddle steamer that ran contraband into the southern states during the civil war.

The ship was a regular caller to Bermuda — which made money out of both sides of the conflict despite an official British position of neutrality — and was in 1863 finally intercepted and impounded by the Union Navy off the Island after a trip to pick up munitions.

The paddle steamer was reckoned by the Union forces to be one of the most important vessels to trade between Bermuda and Wilmington, North Carolina, during the conflict.

The ship, originally the Giraffe and built for the Glasgow-Belfast run, was renamed the USS Fort Donelson and served in the Union Navy until it was sold to a commercial operator in 1865.