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On 4 December 1872 — 5 December by some deck clocks — the British brigantine Dei Gratia, Captain David Morehouse, sighted a ship under partial sail several hundred miles east of the Azores.
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Mary Celeste · tagline
In December 1872 the brigantine Mary Celeste was found under sail near the Azores with cargo intact and no one aboard; Gibraltar’s salvage court never established why ten people had left. Mary Celeste, a Canadian-built brigantine then under American ownership, left New York on 7 November 1872 for Genoa with a cargo of 1,701 barrels of denatured alcohol. Her master was Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs.
Mary Celeste · On 4 December 1872 — 5 December by some deck clocks — the Britis
On 4 December 1872 — 5 December by some deck clocks — the British brigantine Dei Gratia, Captain David Morehouse, sighted a ship under partial sail several hundred miles east of the Azores.
Mary Celeste · A Vice-Admiralty salvage hearing opened at Gibraltar under Attor
A Vice-Admiralty salvage hearing opened at Gibraltar under Attorney-General Frederick Solly-Flood. The court paid a salvage award but never found a cause for the abandonment. Theories — alcohol vapour, a seiche or waterspout, a feared explosion, a missing boat in a rising sea — remain unproved. Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1884 fiction “J.
Mary Celeste · paras 1
Deveau’s boarding notes, later read in court, described a ship that could still be pumped and sailed. Sails were set in a disordered way. The main peak halyard was parted. There was water in the hold, not enough in the salvage testimony to explain a panic by itself. The chronometer, sextant and some papers were missing; the logbook remained. Nine of the alcohol barrels were later reported empty or leaking.
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A Vice-Admiralty salvage hearing opened at Gibraltar under Attorney-General Frederick Solly-Flood. The court paid a salvage award but never found a cause for the abandonment. Theories — alcohol vapour, a seiche or waterspout, a feared explosion, a missing boat in a rising sea — remain unproved. Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1884 fiction “J.
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Deveau’s boarding notes, later read in court, described a ship that could still be pumped and sailed. Sails were set in a disordered way. The main peak halyard was parted. There was water in the hold, not enough in the salvage testimony to explain a panic by itself. The chronometer, sextant and some papers were missing; the logbook remained. Nine of the alcohol barrels were later reported empty or leaking.
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