11.   Then the bilge pumps failed, and the water washing in from the towering waves quickly began filling the Frederick.

12.   They took everything, obviously, but a bilge pump and a tarp.

13.   And the weather can combine with mechanical problems, such as failed bilge pumps.

14.   Both electric bilge pumps have shorted out.

15.   Its engine, bilge pumps and radio had broken down.

16.   The captain of the boat, Hermanto, described how his crowded vessel went down on Saturday night after its engine, bilge pumps and radio broke down.

17.   The boat sank after its bilge pump broke down and its leaky hull filled with water.

18.   The boat, which was headed to Australia, sank on Friday of last week after its bilge pump broke down and its leaky hull filled with water.

19.   The vessel capsized on its way to Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, after its bilge pump broke down in bad weather.

20.   With the engine disabled and the overworked bilge pumps out, waves crashed over the deck and water gushed through the hull, survivors said.