4 p.m.
It was a night of warfare , and the battle had begun early . Mr Welton 's record of the earlier part of that day in the log ran thus : -- `` At 4 a.m. calm , with misty rain ; at 8 , wind south-east , light breeze . At noon , west-south-west , fresh breeze and rain . At 4 p.m. , wind south-west , fresh gale and heavy rain . A large fleet anchored in the Downs . A schooner was seen to anchor in a bad place about this time . At 7 , wind still increasing .