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steamboat

[steem-boht] / ˈstimˌboʊt /


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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 classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as the whistling, rascally pilot of a steamboat floating down a river.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

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

Developments in transportation and communications technology, especially the locomotive, steamboat, and telegraph, transformed the way their citizens lived, traveled, and worked.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

That night, he had stood alone on the top deck of a steamboat called the River Queen, watching Grant’s big guns shell the Confederate defenders of Petersburg.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly




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