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The S. S. ''Minnow'' is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom ''Gilligan's Island''. The ship ran aground on the shore of "an uncharted desert isle" (in the south Pacific Ocean), setting the stage for this popular situation comedy. The crew of two were the skipper Jonas Grumby and his first mate Gilligan, and the five passengers were millionaire Thurston Howell, III, his wife Lovey Howell, movie star Ginger Grant, professor Roy Hinkley, and farm girl Mary Ann Summers. The shipwreck was first seen in the season 1 episode "Two on a Raft", which begins with the crew and passengers awaking on the ship. Several times in the course of the series they plan ways to repair the ''Minnow'' to get off the island. In the episode "Goodbye Island", Gilligan discovered glue that was believed to be waterproof and permanent. However, it was later revealed that the glue was temporary and before they could push the repaired ship out to sea, the entire vessel literally fell to pieces. There are many other references to the ship in the rest of the series, such as in the episode "Court-Martial", where an investigation was launched into the ''Minnow'' ==Origin of its name== A minnow is a very small bait fish, but the TV boat was actually named for Newton Minow,〔Associated Press, "Nostalgic Ride", ''Express'' (Washington, D.C.), Sep. 16, 2008, p. 21.〕 who ''Gilligan's Island'' executive producer Sherwood Schwartz believed "ruined television". Minow was chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1961, and is noted for a speech in which he called American television "a vast wasteland". The ship prefix ''S.S.'' is used for ships that are powered by steam. However, incidents within the show have at different times implied the ''Minnow'' has either a gasoline engine, as in an episode where the Professor is trying to make spark plugs for the engine out of sea shells, or a diesel engine, as in a scene where, after the castaways use home-made glue to repair the boat, all its boards spring off, revealing what appears to be such an engine. Therefore the correct ship prefix should be either ''M.V.'' (motor vessel) or ''M.Y.'' (motor yacht). 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「S. S. Minnow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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