In Spivey Marine & Harbor Service Co. v. State of Illinois, 46 Ill.Ct.Cl.41, 48-49 (1994), the Court awarded damages for a maritime tort in accordance with the governing admiralty law (with legislative ratification). Spivey Marine, supra, is a precedent for this court applying what may be characterized as the common maritime law of Illinois as much as that body of law may also be characterized as federal law. Spivey Marine not a jurisdictional precedent for adjudication of federal law claims generally by the Court: it was a straightforward application of our explicit /8(d) tort jurisdiction