midnight
`` Let me have that wheel , '' commanded Jacob Farnum , stepping forward . `` Jack , you and Eph , below with you ! Coffee , steak -- and anything else -- for all three of you youngsters ! '' It was after midnight when the `` Benson , '' first in , went to her moorings . Grant Andrews and two of his men came on board , to stand guard over the little sea-terror . It was after one in the morning when the Seawold craft strayed into port . A little later came the `` Chelsea '' and the remaining submarine rivals , for the gunboat had stood by the slower ones in case aid of any sort was needed .