Dog watch Dog watch Dog watch, in marine or naval terminology, is a watch, a period of work duty or a work shift, between 16:00 and 20:00 (4 pm and 8 pm). This period is split into two, with the 'first' dog watch from 16:00 to 18:00 (4 pm to 6 pm) and the 'last' dog watch from 18:00 to 20:00 (6 pm to 8 pm). Each of these watches is half the length of a standard watch. The last dog watch is also referred to as the second dog watch in some sources. For instance Jack London in "The Sea Wolf",
Fire Watch (short story) time. The story won both a Hugo Award for Best Novelette and a Nebula Award for Best Novelette. "Fire Watch" (1982) was included in Willis' short-story collections "Fire Watch" (1984) and "The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories" (2013). The idea of a time-traveling history department at Oxford University, introduced in this novelette, was also used in her later novels "Doomsday Book" (1992), "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (1997), and "Blackout/All Clear" (2010), as was the character of Professor James Dunworthy. Although Willis' writing of "Fire Watch" predates the production of "Doomsday Book" by about a decade, Kivrin Engle,