YACHT DRIFTS 400 YARDS FROM SHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.20 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that an auxiliary yacht had been broken down for three-quarters of an hour about 400 yards off shore. The yacht was anchored but drifting towards Clacton; two men could be seen on board. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at half past five. It was the second hour of the ebb; the sea was choppy and there was a gentle breeze from the west-south-west. The life-boat took the yacht Davneen, with a crew of three, in tow to Brightlingsea and returned to her station at 9.15..