Just seconds after launching, the crew of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat, the 42ft Watson Dorothy and Philip Constant, raise the radar scanner anil radio aerials which are folded back while the boat is in her boathouse.

Dorothy and Philip Constant has been on station at Shoreham since being built in 1962 during which time she has launched 183 times and saved 109 lives. She is soon to he replaced by a 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, The Davys Family. The photograph was taken by Peter Hadfleld..