The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.

Jochimsen of Photo Process Co. Ltd., who are custodians of the R.N.L.L's picture negatives going back many years. Built in 1962, the life-boat, which cost £36,000 and was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Constant of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, has to date launched 93 times for 48 lives. Coxswain John Fox heads the local crew. The earliest records of a life-boat being stationed at Shoreham go back to 1845 when the Shoreham Harbour Commissioners had a 30-foot pulling boat with 12 oars. She was built for a mere £100..