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S. S. Minnow
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| Maiden voyage: | 1964 |
| Fate: | Shipwrecked in South Pacific after 3 hour tour |
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| Length: | 38'6" |
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| Service speed: | 12 knots cruise, max 14 knots |
| Engines: | 2 Detroit Diesel engines |
| Power: | 230 hp each |
| Passengers: | 5 |
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- See main article Gilligan's Island
The S. S. Minnow was a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island.
"The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour. The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed."
The ship ran aground on the shore of "an uncharted desert isle" (in the south Pacific Ocean), setting the stage for one of the most successful situation comedies of all time.
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A minnow is a very small bait fish, but the TV boat was actually named for Newton Minow who Gilligan's Island executive producer Sherwood Schwartz believed "ruined television". Minow was chairman on the FCC in 1961. He called television America's "vast wasteland".
The S. S. Minnow II was a succesor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue From Gilligan's Island.
The Minnow III is the name of the plane built by the Professor in the made-for-TV movie The Castaways on Gilligan's Island, the sequel to Rescue From Gilligan's Island. It does not have the prefix "S. S.", as it is not a steamboat.
- In the Animaniacs, they are rescued by the Titanic and S. S. Minnow.
- Gilligan's Island
- Sherwood Schwartz
- Newton Minow
- The Skipper
- Gilligan
- Rescue From Gilligan's Island
- Vast Wasteland Speech