four A.M
` We 'll lay down her position , ' says he , stooping over the chart , a pair of dividers in hand . By the standing orders , the officer going off duty would have done that at the end of his watch . However , I said nothing , and looked on while he marked off the ship 's position with a tiny cross and wrote the date and the time . I can see him this moment writing his neat figures : seventeen , eight , four A.M. . The year would be written in red ink at the top of the chart . He never used his charts more than a year , Captain Brierly did n't . I 've the chart now .