IN November, 1923, a special review of the Atlantic Fleet was held at Spithead for the Dominion Prime Ministers then attending the Imperial Conference. On the day on which the review took place —a day of rough weather—the City of Bradford, the new Motor Life-boat for Spurn Point at the mouth of the Humber, built out* of the special fund raised in Bradford, was carrying out her trials, and her appearance among the Fleet was described in the Yorkshire Evening Post: I " In the morning, as the Princess Margaret slowly steamed down the line of ships, there appeared on the starboard side a Motor Life-boat, her oil-skinned crew swept repeatedly by the dancing seas, the craft itself being almost smothered at times by the exuberant waters. Eventually, I made out her name. It was the Spurn Life-boat, and on her side was painted City of Bradford.

It is well that the people of-the northern city who brought her into being should know that their Life-boat is not afraid of the tempest.".