SEARCH FOR AIRCRAFT Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft with two occupants was overdue at Shoreham Airport. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 6.35 in a light west-northwesterly breeze and a slight sea. It was low water. In conjunction with a helicopter and a Shackleton aircraft the life-boat searched an area between Brighton and Worthing and ten miles out from the shore. After searching for nearly four and a half hours the life-boat was recalled and returned to her station at n o'clock..