More Info About The Boating Beach Picture. That's A Dunkirk "Little Ship" In The Foreground.

A Memory of Southend-on-Sea.

In the foreground is the SMNCo.'s TSMV "New Prince Of Wales I" [a 75ft vessel built by Hayward's Boatyard, Burdett Road, at the back of the Kursaal] normally berthed at that Jetty. I think by the mid-1950's, my family's Company, the SMNCo. had begun to paint the "New Prince of Wales 1" a mid-Blue colour.
. Behind our "New Prince Of Wales" [commandeered for Operation Dynamo (along with every other SMNCo Fleet vessel) - the rescue of the BEF from the beaches of Dunkirk] is the MY "Queen" - which had a distinctive "cruiser stern" rather than a flat transom. She was converted from a Motor Yacht and her owners continued to used the name after conversion to a beach-excursion craft. Eventually everyone forgot she;d been a motor yacht, and the name gradually became "My Queen".in local usage.]
And behind her I can see the distinctive oval-cross-section false-funnel of the TSMV "Dreadnought". "Dreadnought" had been built as a [sailing] Yawl, and ran for at least the 1946 season and perhaps also the 1947 season in that form, before her Owners sent to Johnson & Jago of Leigh-on-Sea for an over-the-Winter conversion to a TSMV,
The dark-hulled vessel [I seem to recall that for a Season or two she operated with a varnished hull] just behind the white bows of Dreadnought" is one of the "Skylarks" - around that time there were at least three of that Name but with a post-nominal Number, working from the Southend Foreshore.
Beyond her I can see what was by that date the last sailing "pleasure boat" working the Foreshore, and I'm sorry I can't recall the name.
I can't get enough detail out of this image to identify the other little ships on the Right of the picture because of the poor resolution and the blue preview band. However, I could date this picture more precisely and name the remaining vessels if I had a higher resolution image to examine.
The Kiosks and the construction of the sea-wall would be clues to a firm date for this picture - because - following the disastrous floods of 1953, - the entire Esplanade Promenade was raised by about 4ft from this No. 1 Jetty all the way Eastwards to past the bottom of Southchurch Avenue by the Kursaal, [whose multi-storey glazed Entrance Tower one can see in the background.], and the old sea-wall bund from the Victorian Era was faced with concrete blocks of a very specific and identifiable design. That work was carried out in 1954 and 1955. And, IIRC, the Kiosks were demolished for that Sea Defence Work, and the Borough Corporation never re-instated them.