Please note that our website supporters do so on a local gesture of goodwill basis. These arrangements  have been made at the sole discretion of this particular station's website organiser. Such arrangements  cannot  imply any affiliation or endorsement  by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

We would like to thank our local sponsors for enabling us to keep this website running.

Countrywide Residential Lettings

Our new sponsor have kindly met the hosting costs of the site for the next year. As if that wasn't enough,  they also supply us with one of our crewmembers.

 of Rectory Grove in Leigh on Sea have paid all our hosting costs over the past few years and remain supporters and friends of the Southend Lifeboat.

The original station website was designed and created by Lance Garrard a former member of the lifeboat crew. A great deal of time was spent collating, capturing and re-keying the information contained in this website and our thanks go to Lance who dedicated many hours of his time on this project and donated over 400 photos. Lance left the crew in 2002.

Another great contributor to this site and many other RNLI websites around the country with his excellent photographs is Nick Leach. The reproductions on this site do not do his pictures full justice.

As well as our website sponsors we would also like to thank the many local companies who support the Lifeboat itself by allowing certain staff to 'down tools' and respond to their emergency  pagers at a moments notice.

There are also those companies and individuals who often donate items or services, often without public recognition, which may be outside the remit of central RNLI funds, and make the running of Southend Station that little bit more comfortable for the Southend crew.

All these actions are very much appreciated.

Thank you.