Dominic Selwood
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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The Mary Celeste departed on her fateful voyage on november seventh, eighteen seventy two.
She left New York and was headed for Genoa in Italy.
On board were 1,701 barrels of industrial denatured alcohol.
In terms of people, there was Captain Benjamin Briggs, there was his wife Sarah, and Sophia, their two year old daughter.
The crew on the ship was small, probably around
december the fourth, eighteen seventy two
So twenty seven days out of New York.
The Mary Celeste was spotted, behaving oddly and erratically.
This was observed by another ship called the Dei Grazia.
A Canadian registered brigandine.
And the two ships, at that time, were between the Azores and the Portuguese coast.
After the Dei Grazia called over to the Mary Celeste and got no answer, its captain, David Morehouse, dispatched a boarding party.
And when these people got on board the Mary Celeste, to their astonishment, they discovered that her erratic behaviour was because absolutely no one
on
In the stores, there was still substantial food and water, and all of the people's effects were still in their cabins and living quarters.
captain's logbook, and they were astonished to see that there had been no entry for nine days.
And so that would have been 18 days out of New York.
That is pretty extraordinary in and of itself, because a captain planning on abandoning a ship probably would have written it in the logbook and probably would have taken the logbook with him.
slightly odd thing, apart from the absence of the people
Was three and a half feet of water in the hold.
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