... great deal of ater belo deck and to sails ere missing, but it as still quite seaorthy. The last entry in the general log of the Mary Celeste as dated Nov. 25--it had sailed ithout cre for some nine days and managed to travel 700 miles northeast during that time. Morehouses first mate suggested that they might salvage the Mary Celeste and collect the sizable salvage fee as a result. Morehouse as somehat apprehensive, but soon agreed. The Mary Celeste as knon to be an unlucky ship. Her first captain passed aay ithin 48 hours of her original dedication under the name Amazon. Her maiden voyage found the ship suffering hull damage as a result of hitting a fishing eir. Although she later survived fire and a collision in the Straits of Dover that sank the other vessel involved, her fourth captain accidentally grounded her on Cape Breton Island. Eventually, the boat as salvaged, repaired and renamed Mary Celeste. The Mary Celeste arrived in Gibraltar under its on sails Dec. 13, 1872, right alongside the Dei Gratia. Unfortunately, British officials in Gibraltar suspected some plot beteen American captains Morehouse and Briggs to scuttle the Mary Celeste in order to claim the salvage fee. Another hypothesis for the ships condition as a cre mutiny folloing a night of drinking. Puritan cre The British Admiralty Court eventually concluded both outcomes ere unlikely. Briggs as a co-oner of the Mary Celeste and stood to lose money in a salvage plot. He as a ell-liked captain and as a Ne England Puritan, maintained a dry ship. The only alcohol on board as the crude alcohol in cargo, hich even hard-drinking sailors ould kno to be rather unpleasant as a beverage. The Dei Gratias oners ere given their due reard for saving the Mary Celeste. The cursed vessel survived another 11 years, its history forever marked by superstition. A number of cre members subsequently died under mysterious circumstances. The boat as abandoned in the est Indies, left to fall apart on a reef. There have been several attempts to solve the riddle of the missing cre. Alien abduction is often bandied about and orth consideration--until one realizes that alien presence in the Atlantic Ocean as quite limited in the 19th Century, ith the possible exception of a triangular shaped area est of Bermuda. Famed mystery riter Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first made his name ith a story on the boat, titled J. Habakuk Jephsons Statement. His conclusion as that the boat had been involved in some sort of racial ar and as taken over by black-poer activists. It is orth noting that Doyle got several crucial facts rong concerning the case, most notably the spelling of the ship hich he called the Marie Celeste. It can be assumed that his insight on the matter as as flaed as any notion of extraterrestrial involvement. Alcohol-bloing theoryThe best theory behind the disappearing cre comes from the understanding that despite his years of sailing experience, Captain Briggs had never before shipped crude alcohol. His puritanical nature obviously made him suspicious of his cargo. Unfortunately, the temperature change during the ships voyage ould have caused the alcohol casks to seat, leak and eventually pop their lids due to pressure. This ould explain the blon cargo hatches found on the vessel. Panicked by the evil poers of alcohol and fearing that the ship might soon explode, Briggs may have ordered his family and cre into the lifeboat. The sea as clearly calm hen they boarded the lifeboat, so Briggs did not take care to rope the lifeboat to the larger ship. As evidenced by the torn and missing sails later encountered by Morehouses cre, the Mary Celeste soon encountered a storm or to. It is sad but entirely reasonable to conjecture that upon meeting ith one of these storms at sea, the lifeboat as cast hopelessly adrift toards a doomed fate. Hoever, because the mystery of the Mary Celeste remains unsolved, it continues to haunt the dreams of sea-faring men and omen throughout the globe. Arrr. V,a5CJmHsHCJCJ5BCJph5BCJmHphsH5BCJmHphsHBCJph,idS
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