eleven o'clock
On the way , however , he visited two of the other burning ships ; and rescued some more of those left behind -- landing , in all , nine officers , two priests , and three hundred and thirty-four soldiers and seamen . Besides these , one officer and eleven Frenchmen had floated ashore , the evening before , on the shattered fragments of a launch . While the boats in the navy were thus endeavouring to save their foes , the land batteries -- which had ceased firing on the previous evening -- again opened on the garrison ; but as , from some of the camps , the boats could be perceived at their humane work , orders were despatched to the batteries to cease fire ; and a dead silence succeeded the din that had gone on for nearly twenty-four hours . Of the six battering ships still in flames , three blew up before eleven o'clock . The other three burned to the water 's edge -- the magazines having been drowned , by the Spaniards , before they left the ships in their boats . The garrison hoped that the two remaining battering ships might be saved , to be sent home as trophies of the victory but , about noon , one of them suddenly burst into flames , and presently blew up . The other was examined by the men-of-war boats , and found to be so injured that she could not be saved .