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The ''Otter'' was a maritime fur trading vessel which was most famous for the rescue, under command of Capt. Ebenezer Dorr ("Dawes"), of Thomas Muir, a famous Scottish political exile. Muir was convicted of sedition before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh in 1793. He was sentenced and transported to the convict settlement at Sydney Cove for the space of fourteen years on 31 August 1793.〔 The ''Otter'', commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Dorr ("Dawes"), was fitted out at Boston, and despatched for Sydney. The Boston register of clearances, Treasury Dept. archives, dates her clearance 20 August 1795.〔 She anchored in Sydney Harbour on 25 January 1796.〔 On 11 February 1796, Muir escaped from the convict settlement on board the ''Otter''. From this point accounts vary. Many state that after being at sea about four months the ship struck a chain of sunken rocks near the Nootka Sound, on the west coast of North America, and was wrecked. Every soul on board perished except Mr. Muir and two sailors. This is however unlikely. Other reliable sources state that when Muir parted from the ''Otter'' at Nootka in June 1796, the ''Otter'' continued north to Bucareli Bay, on the west of Prince of Wales Island and then sailed into the harbor of Monterey on 29 October 1796, the first United States vessel to enter a Californian port.〔 The voyage of the ''Otter'' across the Pacific was famously chronicled by Pierre François Péron.〔 ==Description== Little is known of the ''Otter''. Some accounts state that she was probably a 168-ton ship, the Master was Daniel Bennett and she was owned by Loring & Curtis. It is most probable that her homeport was Boston. Spanish accounts state that she carried six cannon and a crew of twenty-six men. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otter (ship)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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