"The first indication of impending disaster came at about 6pm., with an ominous silence"

1) What was the indication?
2) What was the disaster?
3) What do you mean by ominous silence?

1) The indication was the sudden dropping of the wind and the immediate darkening of the sky, followed by a growing roar and an enormous cloud which towered aft of the ship. 
2) The disaster was a massive storm which hit the boat and giant waves which flooded it with water.
3) Ominous silence refers to a kind of silence which precedes a storm, a pregnant and expectant silence that forebodes danger. 

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