# Seamen’s Manslaughter Charges Dismissed **URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/seamen-s-manslaughter-charges-dismissed/57856 **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum **Created:** [December 29, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/seamen-s-manslaughter-charges-dismissed/57856 "2020-12-29T21:48:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 40
### Author: ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain) #### Post date: [January 3, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/seamen-s-manslaughter-charges-dismissed/57856/40 "2021-01-03T14:51:16Z")
The history of the Steamboat Act is worth looking into. > [@High-Pressure Steam Engines and Computer Software](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/high-pressure-steam-engines-and-computer-software/48339): > > [High-Pressure Engines and Computer Software](http://sunnyday.mit.edu/steam.pdf) An interesting article by [Nancy Leveson:](http://sunnyday.mit.edu/)[Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power](https://www.princeton.edu/ssp/trips/data/Burke_Bursting-Boilers.pdf) - some background on the Steamboat Acts of 1838 and 1852. The innovation responsible for the changed attitudes toward government regulation was the steam engine. [MEBA History 143 Years of History](http://www.mebaunion.org/about-us/meba-history/) Faced with intolerable working conditions, fires and higher and higher boiler pressures creating deadly explosions; steamboat engineers banded together. Important to the fu… > [@Steamboat Act of 1838 and 1852 - Goverment Regulation and the MEBA Union](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/steamboat-act-of-1838-and-1852-goverment-regulation-and-the-meba-union/52761): > > Government regulation in response to loss of life due to Boiler explosions on river steamboats was a profound change in views regarding the role of government in the affairs of private business. The first major legislation was the Steamboat Act of 1838 which focused on criminal negligence of captains and operators which proved to be ineffective. The Steamboat Act of 1852 by contrast focused on the technical side, licensing, boiler inspections and the like. MEBA: The Buffalo Association of … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/seamen-s-manslaughter-charges-dismissed/57856)._