One thousand seven hundred one (1,701) is the number of raw alcohol-filled barrels on the derelict, ghost, mystery ship Mary Celsete. The figure represents the total listed by New York-based German merchants Meissner, Ackersmann and Company for insurance purposes. The cargo was found to include nine empty barrels by the time of court proceedings in Gibraltar and shipment delivery in Genoa, Italy.
No, the Mary Celeste mystery never has been solved even though many assumptions have been made and explanations offered.
The number of people aboard Mary Celeste came to ten: the captain with his two-year-old daughter and wife as well as a total of seven crewmen and officers.
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.
Yes, whiskey is a solution of water, alcohol, and many compounds extracted from the wood of the barrels it was aged in.
There are actually many ghost ships around today. There is the USS Lexington, Queen Mary, Mary Celeste, Baychimo, The MV Joyita, Caleuche, SS Valencia, there are MANY, MANY more ghost ships, but i just listed a few..
Ten is the number of people who were on the abandoned, derelict, ghost, mystery ship Mary Celeste. Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs made his first and last voyage on the above-mentioned half brig with his two-year-old daughter Sophia and his wife Sarah. He was accompanied by three officers -- First mate Albert Richardson, second mate Andrew Gilling and cook and steward Edward William Head -- and four seamen -- Gottlieb Goodschaad, Boz and Volkert Lorenzen, and Arian Martens.
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453,942 barrels.
Five is the number of Dei Gratia crewmen who went on board Mary Celeste. First mate Oliver Deveau led both the first, three-member group of investigators and the second, three-member team of navigators. Seaman John Johnson and second mate John Wright made up the other two investigators while seamen Augustus Anderson and Charles Lund provided navigational support to piloting the unmanned Mary Celeste, in Dei Gratia's wake, to the west Mediterranean port of Gibraltar.
That depends what the barrels are of and how much the individual barrels weigh.
100,000 barrels of oil.
About 85,472,000 barrels per day.