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Post by hi224 on Jan 1, 2020 5:56:01 GMT
On December 4, 1872, a British-American ship called “the Mary Celeste” was found empty and adrift in the Atlantic. It was found to be seaworthy and with its cargo fully intact, except for a lifeboat, which it appeared had been boarded in an orderly fashion. But why? We may never know because no one on board was ever heard from again. In November 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York bound for Genoa, Italy. She was manned by Captain Benjamin Briggs and seven crew members, including Briggs’ wife and their 2-year-old daughter. Supplies on board were ample enough for six months, and luxurious—including a sewing machine and an upright piano. Commentators generally agree that to precipitate the abandonment of a seaworthy ship, some extraordinary and alarming circumstance must have arisen. However, the last entry on the ship’s daily log reveals nothing unusual, and inside the ship, all appeared to be in order. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 1, 2020 7:17:12 GMT
hi224 , There may be a large chapter missing from your post, concerning what happened to the ship, just a few days before... That may NOT be correct... WIKIPEDIA does NOT mention THIS part of "Mary Celeste's" voyage... But " Unsolved Mysteries" must have got it from some source... And I have no reason to believe that " Unsolved Mysteries" made this up, since they always told the researched "facts" of their cases: Here is an interesting but contradicting claim made by "Unsolved Mysteries": So... Was the " cargo fully intact"?... OR... Were some of the barrels damaged during the storm?
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Post by politicidal on Jan 2, 2020 4:37:21 GMT
On December 4, 1872, a British-American ship called “the Mary Celeste” was found empty and adrift in the Atlantic. It was found to be seaworthy and with its cargo fully intact, except for a lifeboat, which it appeared had been boarded in an orderly fashion. But why? We may never know because no one on board was ever heard from again. In November 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York bound for Genoa, Italy. She was manned by Captain Benjamin Briggs and seven crew members, including Briggs’ wife and their 2-year-old daughter. Supplies on board were ample enough for six months, and luxurious—including a sewing machine and an upright piano. Commentators generally agree that to precipitate the abandonment of a seaworthy ship, some extraordinary and alarming circumstance must have arisen. However, the last entry on the ship’s daily log reveals nothing unusual, and inside the ship, all appeared to be in order. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/I'm sure aliens have been mentioned as a possibility.
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