steamboat

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The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

The famous Delta Queen steamboat that now plies the Mississippi was built in Stockton to move passengers and freight in California.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023

Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.

From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023

Another law did the same for steamboat passengers.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

They’re going to tow it behind a steamboat.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman