Dorothy and Philip Constant | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2753

Status Archived

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Dorothy & Philip Constant - starboard view

Dorothy & Philip Constant - underway when stationed at Shoreham

D&P Constant outside shipyard on Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

Previous names

1963 - 1990 RNLB Dorothy and Philip Constant
1990 - 2008 Constance of Blakeney
2008 - 2013 Pettlandssker

Details

Function Service Vessel

Subfunction Lifeboat

Location Unknown

Vessel type Lifeboat - Watson Class

Archive reason More information required

Current use Unknown

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Groves & Gutteridge Ltd, Cowes

Built in 1962

Hull material Wood

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 2

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Length: Overall

42.08 feet (12.83m)

Breadth: Beam

12.17 feet (3.71m)

Depth

3.58 feet (1.09m)

Tonnage: Gross

16.00

History

DOROTHY AND PHILIP CONSTANT was built in 1962 at Cowes, Isle of Wight. She is a Watson 42 class of which only ten vessels were built and is believed to be the last one left in original condition.

She was exhibited at the Earls Court Boat Show in January 1963 and then went into service at Shoreham on Sea, East Sussex, where she was launched 187 times and saved 122 lives. She served there until moving to Oban in 1981/1982 and was a reserve boat until being sold by the RNLI in April 1988. After this she was used by a sailing/powerboat school in Blakeney, Norfolk, and subsequently as a trip boat PETTLANDSSKER in the Pentland Skerries, Orkney until 2012.

At the time of registration in 2013, the vessel was ashore in the boatyard at Portishead Marina, but due to be launched in Spring 2014 and then sailed to Gloucester for restoration and conservation works.

We are lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, or are the current owner, please contact us.