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:''Not to be confused with the sloop Spray at issue in United States v. Jackalow (1862).'' The ''Spray'' was an oyster sloop which Joshua Slocum rebuilt and single-handedly sailed around the world, the first voyage of its kind. The ''Spray'' was lost with Captain Slocum aboard sometime on or after November 14, 1909, after sailing from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, bound for South America.〔(Joshua Slocum and His Travels ) Joshua Slocum Society International Inc.〕 ==History== In 1892, a friend, Captain Eben Pierce, offered Slocum a ship that "wants some repairs". Slocum went to Fairhaven, Massachusetts to find that the "ship" was a rotting old oyster sloop named ''Spray'', propped-up in a field. Despite the major overhaul of the ship, Slocum kept her name ''Spray'', noting, "Now, it is a law in Lloyd's that the ''Jane'' repaired all out of the old until she is entirely new is still the ''Jane''." Its days as a fishing boat, probably as a Chesapeake Bay oysterman, had come to an end by 1885, and it was a derelict, a slowly deteriorating hulk sitting in a makeshift ship's-cradle in a seaside meadow on Poverty Point in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, when Captain Eben Pierce of that town offered it to Joshua Slocum as a gift. Slocum came to Fairhaven to look at the ''Spray'' (sorry sight that it was), and he undertook to repair and refit it over the next thirteen months. In Port Angosto, Strait of Magellan, the ''Spray'' was re-rigged as a yawl by adding a jigger.〔 "I also mended the sloop's sails and rigging, and fitted a jigger, which changed the rig to a yawl ()"〕 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「Spray (sailing vessel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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