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CASE #FGF1BW · 2 entities · 1 connections
The Mary Celeste
A fully-stocked ship was found sailing itself in 1872 — no crew, no explanation, no trace of the ten people who'd been aboard.
In December 1872, the merchant ship Mary Celeste was found adrift and abandoned in the Atlantic, its cargo and crew's belongings largely undisturbed, but every one of the ten people aboard gone without a trace.
⇄disputed
Quick facts
- →The ship still had six months of food and water stocked when it was found.
- →The single lifeboat and the crew's navigational papers were missing — suggesting a deliberate, hurried evacuation.
- →No trace of the captain, his family, or the crew was ever found.
- →A formal admiralty inquiry in Gibraltar investigated for over a decade and reached no definitive conclusion.
Entities on file
Mary Celeste (vessel)
Merchant ship found abandoned and adrift in the Atlantic in 1872, all ten aboard never found.
No outgoing connections on file.
Benjamin Briggs (person)
Captain of the Mary Celeste; disappeared along with his family and crew.
→ commanded → Mary Celeste✓documented