Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 3.22 a.m. on nth June, 1966, a man was reported in the sea clinging to an oar two miles east of the Palace pier. There was a moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant launched at 3.32 and carried out a thorough search of the area in conjunction with a helicopter but without success. The life-boat recovered a dinghy which it was subsequently verified had been taken off the beach by two men.

The body of one of the men was washed ashore before the life-boat was alerted, and the second body was washed ashore some nine hours later. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 6.15..