YACHTS IN DISTRESS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—In the morning of the 8th of June, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported a yacht ashore on the Spile Sands, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tempor- ary duty at the station, was launched at 11.45. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The life-boat found the yacht Joass, of Chatham, half a mile north of West Middle Sand buoy, with three men on board. She was at anchor, but she was hitting the sand and her dinghy was sunk astern. The life-boatmen got up the dinghy and towed the Joass to a safe anchorage at Leigh.—Property Salvage Case..