{"id":611668,"date":"2026-05-30T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611668\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:19:09","slug":"prototype-james-bond-boat-sells-for-51k-at-spy-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611668\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype James Bond boat sells for \u00a351k at spy auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other items ranged from a 2008 print of the complete works of Ian Fleming, which sold for \u00a325,600, to a collection of D-Day intelligence manuals, which sold for \u00a32,816.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A poster for the 1954 film Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, went under the hammer for \u00a33,328.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the Scubacraft can be glimpsed in the James Bond film, it was originally developed in the late 2000s to be used by real naval forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite initial interest from national and international government sectors, only a single prototype was constructed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2015, the James Bond production team read about the craft online and requested to feature it in the background of a scene in Spectre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It can only be briefly glimpsed in the film, which also featured the boat&#8217;s engineering director as an extra in Q&#8217;s workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other items ranged from a 2008 print of the complete works of Ian Fleming, which sold for \u00a325,600,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}