graveyard watch
middle watch
midwatch
night watch

He had written two letters in the middle watch, one to the Company and the other to me.

He went to sleep sitting in his chair, slept through the exercising of the guns and far into the middle watch.

Most of the crew served the high watch; a skeleton staff worked middle and low watches.

Oh, oh, and I was there in the middle watch.

It was quiet here, silent in the middle watch.

"And we all agreed the middle watches would be divided so everyone could have a full night's rest some of the time."

By four the next morning, when the middle watch was over, the wind had died enough for eight bells to be heard clearly.

When you hear the ship's bell strike two bells in the middle watch, jump.

He had told her to jump overboard at precisely two bells in the middle watch.

The weather changed just before the end of the middle watch.