BOAT WAS OVERDUE Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men who had gone in a canoe to help a motor boat with an engine breakdown had been away for a long time. Although conditions were calm, an investigation was considered necessary. Only after the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant had been launched at 10.30 p.m. did the true facts become known and the search shifted to a boat from which the outboard motor had been removed but which contained two occupants. At 2.25 a.m. the boat was found five miles south-east of Shoreham Harbour. The occupants were taken aboard the life-boat and the boat, Rover II, was taken in tow to Shoreham. The lifeboat returned to her station at 3.45..