Mary Celeste (ship)

Yes, there was a pool of suspects for Mary Celeste. Suspicion by Gibraltar Admiralty court proceedings regarding salvage awards was focused upon the captains and the crews of the distressed ship Mary Celeste and the Good Samaritan ship Dei Gratia. Over time, suspicion widens to include the insurance companies, the merchants of the contracted cargo and the owners as well as pirates, salvagers, sea-quakes and waterspouts.

The newlywed cook and steward aboard Mary Celestedescribes the identity of Edward William Head. The spouse of Emma J. Head in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York, was a light-complected, light-haired 23-year-old 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) in height. He was one of ten people who disappeared without a trace during the hermaphrodite brig's crossing of the Atlantic Ocean between New York and the Azores in November 1872.

It was travelling to UK from the USA.

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.

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.

The ship Mary Celeste was built on Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1861.

Benjamin Spooner Briggs was captain of the ship Mary Celeste at the time that Albert G. Richardson was first mate, Andrew Gilling second mate, Edward William Head cook and steward, and Boz Lorenzen, Arian Martens, Gottlieb Gondeschall and Volkert Lorenzen were crewmen.

Mary Celeste is not cursed. The problem of Mary Celeste is not in curses, fortunes or stars, but in people who build, furnish, load, maintain and move ships. Contemporaries and posterity may regard Mary Celeste as accursed or unlucky because of two deaths, four collisions, and ten disappearances, but the hermaphrodite brig in question was in fact a plucky survivor of maximum loads and minimal crews and maintenance from Saturday, May, 18, 1861, to Saturday, January 3, 1885.

Disappearance, illness, notoriety, reassignment, replacement or retirement describes what happened to Mary Celeste's captain. Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs is listed as vanishing without a trace while Captains Robert McLellan and Edgar Tuthill died as the hermaphrodite brig sailed respectively over northwestern and southeastern stretches of the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Gilman Parker is remembered as the Canadian-built ship's last commander and sole skipper to be charged for criminal behavior involving Mary Celeste's fatal grounding and final cargo.

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.

The ship Mary Celeste was found floating in the eastern Atlantic Ocean halfway between the Azores and Portugal, more or less on a course past southern Portugal and Spain, toward Gibraltar.

Yes, Mary Celeste sailed the Atlantic Ocean. The hermaphrodite brig in question was built in Canada for transportation of Canadian lumber to English markets. Its routes subsequently were expanded to include the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.

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The Mary Celeste was built in Nova Scotia and launched in 1861 .She was named Amazon at this time.

In 1867 she ran aground and was salvaged and sold to buyers in the US.

After repairs and refitting, she was relaunched under the name Mary Celeste in 1869.

In 1872 she was found sailing with no-one on board.

Deliberate decisions not to retrieve the half brig in question explains Mary Celeste's going missing. The hermaphrodite brig in question was alleged by crewmen to have been grounded deliberately, on Thursday, January 3, 1885, under Captain Gilman C. Parker's orders, onto the Rochelais Reef off Haiti. The part barkentine part schooner in question was allowed to sink under its own weight and that of the subsequently artificial, shanty-supporting, shell-built isle, for re-discovery on Thursday, April 5, 2001, by marine archaeologist Clive Cussler and professional divers John Davis and Mike Fletcher.