The paddle steamer early in the movie where Gordon and Scott leave England is the Princess Elizabeth, built in 1927 and a veteran of the May 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk, where she made four trips carrying British soldiers back to Britain. From 1970 to 1987 she was a pub restaurant in London, near Tower Bridge, then moved to Paris and used as an art gallery. Since 1999 she's been a tourist attraction in Dunkerque, France.