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| The 100 foot half-brig, originally named Amazon, was
launched in Nova Scotia in 1860. A hard ten years later she was sold at a New York salvage
auction, extensively repaired, re-registered under an American flag, and renamed Mary
Celeste. The new captain was Benjamin Briggs, an experienced master with three
previous commands. On 7 November 1872, the ship departed New York with Briggs, his family, and a crew of eight aboard, bound for Genoa. She was found, drifting, and boarded. None of the passengers or crew were aboard, nor were any of them ever seen again. In 1884, Arthur Conan Doyle, writing under a pseudonym, published an article in the Cornhill Magazine entitled J. Habalick Jephson's Statement which featured a fictional ship called "Marie Celeste." This version of the ship's name is possibly now better known than the real spelling. Conan Doyle's story may be read in his collection entitled The Captain of the Polestar, or on-line. "Since then and to this day, no two accounts of the story are the same." (Read more.) |
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