It’s because the Mary Celeste’s crew and passengers were missing, but they didn’t take their personal effects or food and water. He suspected something about this case wasn’t right, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. The attorney general leading the salvage inquiry, Frederick Solly-Flood, wasn’t as nonsensical as his name implied. They sailed the Mary Celeste about 800 miles to Gibraltar, hoping to collect a salvage payment from the ship’s insurers.īut, if they expected the circumstances wouldn’t raise any eyebrows among the British vice admiralty court, they were wrong. Sure, that’s what the crew of the Dei Gratia thought. Well, It’s Unfortunate That Happened to the Mary Celeste. The crewmen’s gear was still in their quarters.īut the crew, the captain, and his family were gone. The ship was well stocked with enough food and water to last six months. The cargo, save for a few barrels of alcohol, was intact. Morehouse’s crew found the Mary Celeste in decent shape, despite the North Atlantic’s foul disposition at that time of year. Concerned, Morehouse changed course and launched a boarding party to check on the Mary Celeste’s crew and passengers. The Dei Gratia’s captain, David Morehouse, recognized the Mary Celeste-she had sailed from the same port just eight days before his own departure, and he knew her captain.
Nearly a month later, on December 5, the crew of the Dei Gratia spotted the Mary Celeste in the mid-Atlantic.
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On November 7, 1872, the Mary Celeste-a two-masted brigantine ship-set sail from New York City with a cargo hold full of industrial-strength alcohol, seven crew, Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs, his wife, Sarah, and their two-year-old daughter, Sophia.
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