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Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!
From Time Magazine Archive
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In less than twenty minutes she was hopelessly bilged, and her decks swept by every sea.
From "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Louis Becke
They had afterwards waited two days for the Sun, but she had been bilged on the rocks, as we afterwards learnt, to our great regret.
For awhile I had some hope that the stanchness of our vessel’s hull might enable us to cling to her till daylight, but she speedily bilged and began to fill.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
“O’ the gig gettin’ bilged, Mister Ed’ard,” is the ready, but not truthful, rejoinder.
From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid