This is a snapshot, stirring promotional film for the lifeboats. I suspect it was probably shown as a "short" in cinemas before the main feature. Mention is made of the "first motor lifeboat nearly 50 years ago" The first motor lifeboat was 1905 so that would place this in the early 1950's. Secondly the name of a lifeboat can be briefly seen being towed through a street. The name on the boat is the "Robert and Ellen Robson" This boat completed her final service at Whitby from 1947 to 1957
