six in the morning
One bad part of the business was , that the guns were all loaded and shotted , and as the fire got to them they went off , some of the shots reaching Stokes Bay , out there beyond Haslar , and others falling among the shipping . Two poor fellows aboard the _ Queen Charlotte _ were killed , and another wounded , though she and the other ships got under way to escape mischief . At about half-past one she burnt from her cables , and came slowly drifting in here till she took the ground . She burnt on till near six in the morning , when the fire reached the magazine , and up she blew with an awful explosion . We knew well enough that the moment would come , and it was a curious feeling we had waiting for it . Up went the blazing masts and beams and planks , and came scattering down far and wide , hissing into the water ; and when we looked again after all was over , not a timber was to be seen . '' Bob also pointed out the spot where nearly a century before the _ Edgar _ had blown up , and every soul in her had perished , and also where the _ Royal George _ and the brave Admiral Kempenfeldt , with eight hundred men , had gone down several years before the destruction of the _ Boyne _ .