ten o'clock
But it was soon perceived that Repeller No. 11 had no intention of running away , nor of going over to Ireland . From slowly cruising about four or five miles off shore , she had steamed westward until she had reached a point which , according to the calculations of her scientific corps , was nine marine miles from Caerdaff . There she lay to against a strong breeze from the east . It was not yet ten o'clock when the officer in charge of the starboard gun remarked to the director that he suppose that it would not be necessary to give the smoke signals , as had been done in the channel , as now all the crabs were lying near them . The director reflected a moment , and then ordered that the signals should be given at every discharge of the gun , and that the columns of black smoke should be shot up to their greatest height . At precisely ten o'clock , up rose from Repeller No . 11 two tall jets of black smoke .