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Nobody knows whether the crew of the ghost ship Mary Celeste got off at the Azores. The half brig in question pursued a course to the south of the Azores instead of the more typical passage to the north. A charting of the course and entries by crewmen reveal no stops after departing from New York Pier 44 Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1872, other than sheltering off Staten Island until re-departure in less initially violent weather Thursday, Nov. 7, 1872.
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How many people disappeared from 'Mary Celeste'?
Ten people are known to have disappeared from the half brig Mary Celeste. The disappearances took place in November 1872 sometime after or while the hermaphrodite brig in question was passing the Azores. The course was a bit odd since typical shipping routes rounded the Azores off the archipelago's southern coasts whereas Mary Celeste was traveling off the northern shorelines.
What was the route of 'Mary Celeste'?
Transatlantic and transmediterranean courses are parts of the projected route of the half brig Mary Celeste. Shipping routes from New York to the eastern Atlantic Ocean's entry into the Mediterranean tend to round the Azores off the insular group's southern shores. But a rounding off the archipelago's northern shores turned out to be the course preserved in the charts found on the abandoned, derelict Mary Celeste yawing halfway between the Azores and Portugal in 1872.
How long did the search and rescue team search for the missing passengers of 'Mary Celeste'?
There was no search and rescue team search for the missing passengers of Mary Celeste. The Mary Celeste Ten went missing off the southernmost Azores during or subsequent to the morning of Sunday, November 24, 1872. The captain and the crew of Dei Gratia were the first-known contacts with Mary Celeste between the hermaphrodite brig's departure on Thursday, November 7, 1872, from Staten Island and its discovery yawing between the Azores and Portugal on Wednesday, December 4 or Thursday, December 5, 1872.
Were 'Mary Celeste' crewmen killed by a tsunami?
No, a tsunami did not kill the Mary Celeste crewmen. The Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas over which the nineteenth-century half brig Mary Celeste sailed may be settings for tsunamis, generally as successors to strong seismic or volcanic events. There was in fact a near 9.0 magnitude earthquake 62.14 miles (100 kilometers) off Portugal, whose aftereffects included at least three 32.81-feet- (10-meter-) high tsunamis, in 1755.
Was the entire crew found on 'Mary Celeste'?
No, the entire crew was not found on Mary Celeste. Somewhere around or off the Azores the Mary Celeste 10 of captain with daughter and wife, three officers and four sailors went missing from the part barkentine part schooner in question. Searches never were conducted along the Azores or the coasts of Portugal, toward which the half brig was yawing when sighted in 1872 on Wednesday, December 4 (nautical reckoning, from noon to noon) or Thursday, December 5 (civilian reckoning, from midnight to midnight).
Did 'Mary Celeste' go past the Azores?
Yes, Mary Celeste sailed past the Azores. The Canadian-built, United States-registered hermaphrodite brig transported cargo from northeastern North America to American, Asian and European ports over Atlantic and Indian Ocean and Caribbean and Mediterranean Sea shipping lanes. The nineteenth-century vessel's most famous and mysterious swing around the northern part of the Atlantic archipelago was during November 1872, with the course-charting map and the daily ship's log identifying a location off the Azores' most southerly island, Santa María, Monday, Nov. 25, 1872.
Did anyone from 'Mary Celeste' drown?
It is unknown whether anyone from the half brig Mary Celeste drowned. Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs with daughter Sophia and wife Sarah, three officers and four seamen may have drowned, accidentally in an overloaded, rickety lifeboat or deliberately through the possible occurrences of barratry, mutiny or piracy sometime and somewhere between the Azores in November 1872 and off Portugal in December 1872. David Reed Morehouse, acquaintance of Captain Briggs and Dei Gratia Captain to the crew that sailed the abandoned Mary Celeste to Gibraltar, thought that the first of the two above-mentioned scenarios explained the disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10.
Is 'Mary Celeste' a true story?
Yes, the story of the ship Mary Celeste is true. A number of treatments may be found in twentieth and twenty-first century audio-visual and written retrospectives regarding the disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10 in November or December 1872. But the various approaches and conclusions ultimately reflect the deep truth that something caused 10 people to go missing off the Azores despite cargo, equipment and possessions remaining aboard an accidentally or deliberately abandoned ship en route from New York to Genoa, Italy.
Who founded 'Mary Celeste'?
Oliver Deveau in 1872 and Mike Fletcher in 2002 are the names of people who found Mary Celeste. In the first instance, the first mate of the ship Dei Gratia was the first to notice the hermaphrodite brig Mary Celeste yawing in the eastern Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal. In the second instance, the diver was the person who helped author Clive Cussler and fellow diver John Davis to establish that the part barkentine part schooner most likely was supporting a shanty-bearing, shell-built island in the Rochelais Reef off Haiti.
How was 'Mary Celeste' found?
It is by accident in 1872 and by deliberation in 2001 that Mary Celeste was found. In the first case, nobody knew that the Mary Celeste 10 of captain with daughter and wife, three officers and four seamen had gone missing when the captain and crew of Dei Gratia discovered the part barkentine part schooner yawing halfway between the Azores and Portugal. In the second instance, author Clive Cussler and professional divers John Davis and Mike Fletcher checked out anecdotes and the historical and legal record to find the plucky half brig's remains wrecked in the Rochelais Reef off Haiti.
What does it mean to have to write about what you think happened on 'Mary Celeste'?
Elaboration of a personal opinion, or of an individual interpretation, of events is the meaning of having to write about what one thinks happened on the half brig Mary Celeste. The two most famous sets of events reference the abandonment of the hermaphrodite brig in question halfway between the Azores and Portugal in 1872 and the part barkentine part schooner's grounding off the Caribbean island of Haiti in 1885. Personal interpretations and opinions specify causes and perpetrators that are the most likely explanations for the apparent disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10 in the first case and for the purported fraud in the second.
When and where were the crew members of 'Mary Celeste' found?
Never and nowhere are the "when" and "where" regarding finding the crew members of the half brig Mary Celeste. Everyone known to have been aboard the hermaphrodite brig in question as of Tuesday, November 5, 1872, is considered as having disappeared without a trace. Captain David Williams, who understands the direction and flow of currents between the Azores, Portugal and Spain, suggests, in his online article "Mary Celeste Was Abandoned during a Seaquake," that some of those aboard the part barkentine part schooner may have accounted for never identified bodies found tied to a plank off Spain in early 1873.
