Did you hear about the “Mary Celeste” ship? It was a huge sailing ship that could travel with a tonnage of 282 tons. It was built in 1861 in Canada, and it was registered as a merchant ship there, but it was linked to a strange story. Its crew suddenly disappeared 148 years ago, and it has not appeared yet.
Because of the mystery about that incident, "Mary Celeste" became a fertile material for legends and films, such as the horror movie "The Ghost Ship" in 1935.
The ship was strange by all accounts. During its first sea voyage, its captain, Captain Robert McClay, the son of the ship's owner, breathed his last on its deck as a result of pneumonia. She was also jinxed on her subsequent voyage when she collided with a fishing boat, and on her first transatlantic voyage she collided with a ship in the English Channel, and then sailed for several years as a ship to transport goods to and from South America, and on one of her voyages she was hit by a strong storm and ran aground and was damaged. And in 1868 it was sold to an American person who registered it in New York under the name Mary Celeste, then he sold it in turn to a group of partners, one of whom was Benjamin Bridge, who became its captain and sailed with it on several commercial trips across the Atlantic.
November 5, 1872On November 5, 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York, and her cargo consisted of 1,701 barrels of raw alcohol sent to Italy. Bridge, and never expected to meet the ship Mary Celeste in the open ocean because it had set off on its voyage eight days before his sailing, but while Captain Morehouse was sailing his ship in the ocean 600 miles to the west of Portugal, his sailors spotted an unknown ship at a distance About 8 kilometers from their ship.
Captain Morehouse ordered his sailors to head towards the unknown ship, and when they got close enough to it, Captain Morehouse discovered that the unknown ship was none other than the Mary Celeste, the ship of his friend, captain Benjamin Bridge, which was supposed to be sailing by now near the Strait of Gibraltar. Captain Morehouse realized that the Mary Celeste had a problem, so he decided to send one of his sailors to board it and find out what happened to it. The ship and found that one of them is still working with the other two were missing, and during his inspection of the ship did not find anyone, everyone had disappeared.
Surprisingly, the ship was found completely empty of humans in excellent condition, the crew disappeared and left everything behind, even the guide of the ship was not tied. Its cargo has not been touched and the personal belongings of the passengers are still in their rightful place, including the valuables. As for the passengers, no one has seen or heard of them after that. This puzzle is one of the most mysterious marine puzzles to this day.
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