two o'clock in the afternoon
As this position , pricked on the chart , showed the steamer to be in a dangerous and exposed position , and as , moreover , she was a menace to navigation , being full in the path of vessels , the _ Miami _ got under way immediately . As soon as the Coast Guard cutter reached the bar , a snowstorm , which seemed to have been waiting around , as if for that very purpose , struck down upon the water and the _ Miami _ clawed out over the bar in a blinding smother . There was a nasty , choppy sea , the wind having hauled round to the westward , though it was not as violent as the day before . At two o'clock in the afternoon the radio operator received a storm warning for a nor ` wester . A passing vessel spoke the _ Miami _ by wireless and stated that she had sighted the _ Northwestern _ , but gave her position twelve miles to the westward of the point first quoted . It was evening before the steamer in distress was sighted . The Coast Guard cutter ran up under her stern , and asked if she could hold on for a while .