steamboat
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A grand jury in 2020 initially indicted Boylan on 34 counts of 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 • Oct. 24, 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
Seaman’s manslaughter was enshrined after steamboat disasters killed hundreds of people in fires and boiler explosions.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2022
And then finally somebody shouted and we all looked to see the steamboat towing the pontoon boat up the river.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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