A mystery exceeding 135 years and beyond, the story of the Mary Celeste is indeed an enigma.
Termed as a Ghost Ship as it's mysterious voyage traveled past folklores, no one really knows what happened to the Mary Celeste and her Captain, his wife, their infant daughter and other seven crew members.
A secure wooden ship, sailing itself without any crew. What Happened? Where did they go?
The ocean is mysterious as it holds lost secrets and souls in its uncharted territories and graves to create a vast frontier of horrors and Land Ho! Conspiracy Theories.
THE HISTORY OF THE DOOMED VESSEL
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The Mary Celeste wasn't always known infamously by this name. Built in Spencer's Island, Love Scotia, (1960), her registration under the maiden name 'Amazon' described her as a 107 long feet Brigantine vessel with a 26 long feet two-shift mast, depth of 11.7 feet and a gross tonnage of 198.42.
From the moment it was created, it was cursed.
1861: Set for sail under her first captain, Robert McLellan and owner Joshua Dewis, the ship was bound across the Atlantic to London, sailing towards Five Islands with a cargo of timber. The Captain fell ill before completing this journey and died while the ship was in sail. Her fate was already sealed with the death of her first captain.
1867: Encountering further misadventures, the ship changed her owner to Captain John Nutting Parker where she collided with a two-mast vessel in the English Channel carrying fishing equipment in the marrows of East-port, Maine.
1868: Continuing to change hands with a number of owners, the ship was tossed to an American Marnier; Richard W. Haines who changed her to Mary Celeste, a name which will go down in the mysteries of the sea. Going through many extensive repairs and renovations the ship was build brand new for further voyages it was bound to take.
1869: Due to the unsettling nature of the ship it was sold again and taken under command by Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs, under which the seafaring incident of the missing crew would take place.
November 7, 1872: Mary Celeste set sail from New York Harbor bound for Genoa, Italy with a total of ten crew members including the Captain, his wife Sarah and their two year old daughter Sophia. In the lull of the ship there was a cargo of 1700 crude alcohol barrels.
December 4, 1872: The ship was found deserted with no signs of an of the ten crew members by the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia Captained by David Morehouse, off the shore of Azores Islands, Portugal. The ship was found in an amiable condition with no personal items of the crew, major navigational parts or the cargo missing from the ship's body. A single lifeboat was missing with a frayed rope trailing behind the ship and nine broken casks of alcohol apparently used for no immediate purpose. Two water pumps were found disassembled and three and half feet of water were found in the bottom hold of the ship. The last log was made ten days before after which no sign of life was found on the ship as it aimlessly trailed on the Atlantic Oceans.
