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Were there any survivors of 'Mary Celeste'?
No, there were no survivors on the ship Mary Celeste. No one knows what happened to them except that they just disappeared.
Was any of the alcohol aboard 'Mary Celeste' drunk by the crew?
It is unknown whether any of the alcohol aboard Mary Celeste was drunk by the crew. But it tends to look as unlikely that crewmen would have brought their own alcohol aboard the hermaphrodite brig in question since Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs was known to be hard-working, honest, and intolerant of drunkenness and recklessness. The cargo was a load of 1,701 barrels filled with undrinkable industrial alcohol, whose volatility may have been evidenced in nine of the barrels being empty, possibly from below-deck explosions.
Was there any god on 'Mary Celeste'?
It is unknown whether there was any god in the sense of an icon on Mary Celeste. Nobody knows the religious convictions of the Mary Celeste Ten since there is no readily accessible indication of whether the captain, crew, and passengers were non-practicing or practicing believers. But Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs was the direct-line descendant of God-fearing, hard-working fishing people from Massachusetts, where fishing families, such as those of Gloucester, still believe that God and Our Lady Mary are always present in perfect storms and weathers.
Did 'Mary Celeste' have engines?
No - the Mary Celeste was a 2-masted brigantine sailing vessel. It had no engines of any type or design.
What is the 'Mary Celeste' incident?
Abandonment and grounding can be considered answers to any questions about the Mary Celeste incident. The abandonment happened in 1872 while the grounding occurred in 1885. Both incidents jumpstarted legal proceedings that ended in unjustified criticism of the Dei Gratia and Mary Celeste crews in the first case and in sudden termination in the second.
Why is 'Mary Celeste' a mystery?
The fact that nobody knows what happened to the Mary Celeste 10 in 1872 is a reason why Mary Celeste is a mystery. The mystery of the disappearance of the captain with his daughter and wife as well as of all of his crew and officers remains the greatest maritime enigma of all time. No one scenario yet tends to fit even though suggestions of mutiny, piracy, seaquakes and water spouts have been offered.
Who was Captain Briggs of the 'Mary Celeste' conspiracy?
There is no such person as the Captain Briggs of the Mary Celeste conspiracy. Benjamin Spooner Briggs is the name of the half brig in question's most famous captain, whose fate and that of his daughter, his wife, three officers and four sailors remain unknown almost 150 years after the disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10 in November or December 1872. No evidence reveals any conspiracy by any of the Mary Celeste 10 even though the Gibraltar court proceedings officials claimed most of the salvage away in 1873 by demonizing the captain and crew of the victim ship Mary Celeste and of the rescue ship Dei Gratia.
Is the mystery of 'Mary Celeste' true?
Yes, the mystery of the ghost ship Mary Celeste is true. Ship remains on the Caribbean Sea's Rochelais Reef prove that the half brig in question existed, as do depictions and documentation from launching in May 1861 through traveling to Haiti in January 1885. The Gibraltar court proceedings of 1872 and 1873 reveal that the mystery of the part barkentine part schooner's abandonment and drifting between the Azores and Portugal was a real event.
How did the crew of 'Mary Celeste' disappear?
It is unknown how the crew of the half brig Mary Celestedisappeared. The disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10 refers to the accidental or deliberate abandonment of the hermaphrodite brig in question by the captain with his daughter and his wife, three officers and four seamen. The last log entry reveals a date of Wednesday, November 25, 1872, but without any mention of problems such as barratry,explosions or fumes from a volatile load of raw industrial alcohol, mutiny, piracy, seaquakes, water leaks or waterspouts that would trigger leaving cargo, equipment and personal possessions behind.
When was 'Mary Celeste' discovered?
The years 1872 and 2001 are the dates that the half brig Mary Celeste was discovered. In the first case, the discovery was accidental since the captain and the crew of Dei Gratia had left New York after the hermaphrodite brig Mary Celeste's departure so nobody apparently had any idea that within a month the Mary Celeste 10 of captain with daughter and wife, three officers and four seamen would go missing while leaving behind cargo, equipment and possessions on a therefore derelict, yawing ship.In the second instance, the discovery was deliberate since marine archaeologist Clive Cussler and professional divers John Davis and Mike Fletcher knew that the part barkentine part schooner had been shipwrecked in 1885 and assiduously searched the Rochelais Reef off Haiti for Mary Celeste's remains.
What is the connection between Dracula and 'Mary Celeste'?
Ghost ships and nineteenth-century occurrences are the connections between Dracula and Mary Celeste. The first-mentioned item references a novel by Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 - April 20, 1912) and tells the story of the Russian ship Demeter running aground on Whitby with all crew missing except a captain lashed to the steering wheel. The second-mentioned object refers to a famous, real cargo ship that was found yawing, with contracted cargo and personal possessions aboard but without any captain or crew of passengers, halfway between the Azores and Portugal.
Were there any people or ships nearby where 'Mary Celeste' was found?
Dei Gratia is the only ship known to have been nearby where Mary Celeste was found on Wednesday, December 4 (nautical reckoning) or Thursday, December 5 (standard reckoning), 1872. Dei Gratia left New York after Mary Celeste, and Captains Benjamin Spooner Briggs of the latter and David Reed Morehouse of the former were planning to meet in Italy after delivering their respective cargoes. Nobody other than Dei Gratia's captain and crew ever offered any indication of contacting, crossing or sighting the half brig in question between departure from Staten Island on Thursday, November 7, 1872, and yawing off Portugal on Wednesday, December 4 or Thursday, December 5, 1872.
