midnight
`` Carpenter says he can fix it in two hours . Could do it in half an hour if it were n't for the storm . '' Captain Glenn nodded but made no audible reply . At midnight the gale was still raging . Captain Glenn , tired out , announced that he was going below to get `` forty winks . '' Jack took the bridge . `` Call me if anything happens , '' were the commander 's last words as he went below .