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Federal regulations do not address tank installations in bilges of boats, nor must tank materials be tested for corrosion resistance.
These are used for ventilating fuel lockers, bilges, deck boxes, lazarettes, or behind electronics.
Blaming their own ignorance, they recount how in the past they would pump oil overboard or let oil collect in their boat's bilges.
Salt water and wet bilges will expedite the deterioration, although 10-15 years is a reasonable life expectancy.
The bilges are firm and ballast is low which makes for a stiff boat that stands up well to a blow.
The cause of Sunday's fire was traced to an electrical fault in the bilges of the vessel.
Millions of small oil spills, primarily from ships cleaning their bilges, go unreported and undetected each year.
But ripping yarns of undersea adventure failed to describe stinking bilges and hideous, overflowing buckets of garbage or worse.
Waste from the ship's bilges is pumped into holding tanks, then run through separators to remove water from the oil.
We can find it in collection holding tanks, salt water lines, bilges, void spaces, and storage tanks.
It was decided to clean, rust proof and paint the bilges, bulkheads and deckheads.
An accumulation of water in the bilges could have contributed to the corrosion of the metal parts.
The owner advised that action would be taken by a contractor to pump the remaining diesel oil from the vessel's bilges and damaged tank.
Realizing that he had full control of the vessel, the master ordered a check of the tanks and bilges.
This prevented a large quantity of shipped seawater from getting down to the bilges, where it could be pumped out.
During this short voyage, the lazarette's high-water bilge alarm sounded and the engine room bilges were found to be nearly full of seawater.
Unfortunately, the long over-hangs, broad bilges, shallow draft and centerboards encouraged by the rule do not make for a boat that is particularly fast upwind.
It just shows however that you might have to be more protective of the waters that go in and out of the bilges of ships as they come in and out of your harbours.
The same device was also used to pump water out of the bilges of ships.
She took the route to the Pyrenees and made her way to Seville whence she was transported to Gibraltar in the bilges of a boat carrying oranges.
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The bilge-water reeked and rotted in the bilges, filling the whole ship with its indescribable stench.
But at times they were objectionable, especially when the gin was awash in the bilges.
Meantime, red and white lead paint was being applied in the bilges of the vessel.
She looked bluff and heavy in the bows and her bilges turned hard, but she walked over the water, and don't you forget it.
I looked at the gauge-glasses on the boilers, peered into the bilges, and found the fireman at his post in the stokehold.
The inner skin of the gas-tanks comes down to within a foot or two of my head and turns over just short of the turn of the bilges.
An' when the brotherhood was pea-green with seasickness I goes down into the bilges with a big auger an' scuttles the ship.
As she swung with the smooth undulations, blocks clattered, booms groaned, and the water in her bilges swirled noisily to and fro.
If he could pump from the bilges this coming up would be unnecessary.
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