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Her last captain and owner, identified as G. C. Parker, deliberately wrecked the Mary Celeste in an insurance fraud in the Caribbean Sea on January 3, 1885. The plan did not work, as the ship failed to sink after having been run on to the Rochelais reef off the western coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti and south of Gonave Island. Parker then set fire to her, but she refused to burn completely. She was deemed as unsalvageable, and left to break up and sink.

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