a quarter to
eleven
This ship of their kinsfolk was almost the last external object seen from the _ Calliope _ for hours ; immediately after , the mists closed about her till the morrow . She was safe at sea again -- _ una de multis _ -- with a damaged foreyard , and a loss of all the ornamental work about her bow and stern , three anchors , one kedge-anchor , fourteen lengths of chain , four boats , the jib-boom , bobstay , and bands and fastenings of the bowsprit . Shortly after Kane had slipped his cable , Captain Schoonmaker , despairing of the _ Vandalia _ , succeeded in passing astern of the _ Olga _ , in the hope to beach his ship beside the _ Nipsic _ . At a quarter to eleven her stern took the reef , her hand swung to starboard , and she began to fill and settle . Many lives of brave men were sacrificed in the attempt to get a line ashore ; the captain , exhausted by his exertions , was swept from deck by a sea ; and the rail being soon awash , the survivors took refuge in the tops . Out of thirteen that had lain there the day before , there were now but two ships afloat in Apia harbour , and one of these was doomed to be the bane of the other . About 3 P.M. the _ Trenton _ parted one cable , and shortly after a second .