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Where did the crew and the Briggs family go missing on the Mary Celeste?
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On December 4, 1872, the Mary Celeste was discovered by the crew of the Brig Dei Gratia , some 600 miles west of Portugal. The ship was sailing without captain, crew, or captain's family. The last entry in the ship's log was dated November 24, 1872 locating the ship about six miles off Saint Mary's Island in the Azores. The only lifeboat on the Mary Celeste, a yawl located above the main hatch, was missing. The peak halyard, used to hoist the main sail, had disappeared. A rope, perhaps the peak halyard, was found tied to the ship very strongly and the other end, very frayed, was trailing in the water behind the ship. No one knows what happened to the people aboard the Mary Celeste as their remains were never recovered nor did they ever turn up alive. Whatever occurred is still the largest nautical mystery in the history of sea travel.
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Who was the captin of the mary celeste?
Capitan Briggs
Were there lifeboats on 'Mary Celeste' after the crew went missing?
No, there were no life boats on Mary Celeste after the crew went missing.
What is the exact time that 'Mary Celeste' passengers went missing?
Nine in the morning in nautical time is the exact time at which Mary Celeste's passengers go missing.
What is the name of the missing captain of 'Mary Celeste'?
Benjamin Spooner Briggs is the name of the missing captain of Mary Celeste. The last person known to have seen the captain in question was Burnett, harbor pilot from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He was paid $40 to escort Mary Celeste through the Verrazano Narrows on Tuesday, November 7, 1872, prefatory to crossing the winter storm-riddled Atlantic for docking at Genoa, Italy, after traversing the western Mediterranean.
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.
What happened to the family on 'Mary Celeste'?
Nobody knows what happened to the family on the abandoned, deserted, ghost, mystery ship Mary Celeste. Correspondence with and memoirs of the Briggs family list Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs as being accompanied by his daughter Sophia and his wife Sarah. The three number among the three officers and four seamen known to have been aboard the hermaphrodite brig and not known to have been found alive anywhere after the last log entries in November 1872.
What was the date when the Mary Celeste went missing?
It did not go missing but was found on December 4 1872. Source Wikipedia
What was missing from 'Mary Celeste'?
Equipment, papers and people complete the list of what and who went missing from the abandoned, derelict, ghost, mystery ship Mary Celeste. Equipment includes a chronometer and a sextant while papers reference the captain's documents. People refers to the Mary Celeste 10 of captain with daughter and wife, three officers and four seamen.
What are the names of the people who disappeared from 'Mary Celeste'?
Benjamin Spooner Briggs is the name of the captain who disappeared, along with his daughter Sophia and his wife Sarah, from the half brig Mary Celeste in 1872. Three officers numbered among the missing Mary Celeste 10: Andrew Gillings as second mate, Edward William Head as cook and steward, and Albert Richardson as first mate. Four seamen from Germany, the country of the merchants whose cargo of raw industrial alcohol Mary Celeste was transporting, vanished as well: Gottlieb Goodeschall, the brothers Boz and Volkert Lorenzen, Arian Martens.
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.
What are the names of the captain the captain's wife and the captain's daughter on the ship 'Mary Celeste'?
Benjamin Spooner Briggs, Sarah Elizabeth Cobb Briggs, and Sophia Matilda Briggs are the respective names of the Captain, the Captain's wife, and the Captain's daughter on the half brig Mary Celeste. Mr. Briggs was not the only captain of the hermaphrodite brig in question. But he was the captain at the time of the part brigantine part schooner's involvement in one of the world's greatest maritime mysteries.
Where was 'Mary Celeste' going?
The ship Mary Celeste was going east.
