'celebration time ' , daily ship news , from the papers of avice r. wilson , war bride , imperial war museum eighteen days at sea , it was impossible to say at what time dawn broke , not because it varied from day to day , or continent to continent , but because across the flattened arc of a marine horizon the glowing crack that sheared into the darkness could be seen hundreds , perhaps thousands of miles away , long before it might be visible on land , long before it meant a new day .