Dominic Selwood
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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To the boarding party's astonishment, they were met with the completely eerie scene of a ship set up for people.
Food, personal possessions, living quarters, everything entirely normal, as if the people had just stepped out of the room, but there was no evidence of them at all.
There are inevitably many, many theories about what happened on the Mary Celeste.
They inspected the captain's logbook and they were astonished to see
That there had been no entry for nine days.
And he was highly suspicious and thought there had been wrongdoing.
suggesting that perhaps there had been a crime like mutiny.
Or murder.
started life called the Amazon.
She'd been built on Spencer's Island in Nova Scotia, and the keel was laid in late 1860, with the ship launched on May the 18th, the following year 1861.
The Amazon was a brigantine.
Carvel built from a wooden hull with two masts and modest tonnage for an Atlantic coasting trading vessel.
Her early activities were broadly conventional.
She sailed around the West Indies, England, and the Mediterranean.
The Amazon unfortunately experienced a sequence of incidents, including the death of a captain.
and was eventually partially wrecked off Cow Bay, Cape Reton Island, Nova Scotia.
Celeste's owners were a consortium headed by a man named James H.
Winchester and a group of smaller investors.
One of the owners was in fact the ship's new captain, Benjamin Spooner Briggs, and he held a quarter of the share in the boat.
Briggs was generally thought of as an experienced, reliable, sober
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