Southend-on-Sea Lifeboat Station Southend-on-Sea Lifeboat Station The Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station is a lifeboat station at Southend-on-Sea in the English county of Essex, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Because of the large tidal range and extensive drying foreshore at Southend, the lifeboat station uses two boathouses. One of these is situated at the head (outer end) of the long Southend Pier, and houses an Atlantic 75 class lifeboat and a smaller D class lifeboat, both of which are launched by davit into the deep water adjoining the pier. The other boathouse is situated adjacent to the inshore end of the pier,
Clacton (UK Parliament constituency) East London such as Barking and Dagenham, leading to the town of Clacton becoming known as "Little Dagenham." The stark exception is the village of Jaywick, which suffers from extremely high levels of deprivation. In Both the Indices of deprivation 2010 and 2015, an area of Jaywick was identified as the single most deprived LSOA in all of England, out of around 32,000, with unemployment estimated at almost 50%. Many homes are essentially beach huts and lack basic amenities. In the 2007 Index, this area was the third-most deprived in the country. The constituency's Member of Parliament until 3 April