7:30
The ship 's daily life commences with the calling of the ship 's cook at 3:30 a.m. . The ordinary mess cooks are awakened at four o'clock , so that coffee can be prepared for the watch . Coffee is always served with hard-tack to the watch coming on deck at four . It is all the men get until breakfast at 7:30 , and a great deal of work must be accomplished before that time . After the hard-tack and coffee had been consumed -- and it went to that spot always reserved for good things -- the lookouts of the other watch on the port and starboard bridge and the patent life buoys port and starboard quarter were relieved . As soon as the first streaks of dawn Were to be seen a long-drawn boatswain 's pipe , like the wail of a lost soul , came from forward , and the order `` scrub and wash clothes '' given . A day or two before the `` Yankee '' left the navy yard , one of the pretty girls who had come over to visit her asked : `` Where do you have your washing done ?