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Traditional "Southend Sailing Lifeboat" - a type of excursion boat that had worked off the foreshore since the 1880's - shown in the first "picture postcards of the holiday beaches. For a view of such a PC, go to the < simplonpc > website and scroll to "Southend Excursion boats". I am researching to try and discover the name of what looks like the very last survivor of maybe 20 such boats, which had names like Monarch, Dreadnought, Grace Darling, and Champion. '