# The Mary Celeste > The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift and deserted east of the Azores on 4 December 1872, under partial sail, seaworthy, with her cargo… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) Updated: 2026-10-27T17:47:46+00:00 --- **MYS** 0D00ZMQE21G3·Mystery · disappearance # The Mary Celeste **0** [Follow][Ask a question](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions/key-questions?mystery=mary-celeste) The Mary Celeste ![Photograph: The Mary Celeste](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/mary-celeste-lead) Unknown author · Public domain Vessel Brigantine, about 282 tons after her 1872 enlargement; built Spencers Island, Nova Scotia, 1861 as Amazon⁠[[1]] Master Benjamin Spooner Briggs, with wife Sarah, daughter Sophia (2) and seven crew⁠[[1]] Sailed New York, 7 November 1872, for Genoa with 1,701 barrels of alcohol⁠[[1]] Last log 8 a.m. 25 November 1872, Santa Maria (Azores) bearing 6 miles⁠[[1]] Found 4 December 1872 by the Dei Gratia at 38°20′N 17°15′W⁠[[1]] Inquiry Vice-Admiralty Court, Gibraltar, from 17 December 1872; salvage award £1,700, 8 April 1873⁠[[2]] Fate Deliberately wrecked on the Rochelois reef, Haiti, 3 January 1885⁠[[2]] Status Partly explained Questions 0 of 2 answered People [**Frederick Solly-Flood** Attorney General and Advocate General of Gibraltar](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZQN647BT/frederick-solly-flood)[**Oliver Deveau** First mate of the Dei Gratia; boarded and sailed in the derelict](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZQDC4PNM/oliver-deveau)[**Benjamin Spooner Briggs** Master](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZPE45AAW/benjamin-spooner-briggs)[**Sarah Elizabeth Briggs** The captain's wife](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZPNY6HQD/sarah-elizabeth-briggs)[**Anne MacGregor** Documentary maker; 2007 analysis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZRME1ETJ/anne-macgregor) All 11 people › [**Albert G. Richardson** First mate](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZPXR1AH0/albert-g-richardson)[**Arthur Conan Doyle** Author of the 1884 story](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZR4T1CNB/arthur-conan-doyle)[**David Reed Morehouse** Master of the Dei Gratia](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZQ5J2RNK/david-reed-morehouse)[**Philip L. Richardson** Physical oceanographer, Woods Hole; drift modelling](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZRW80RVN/philip-l-richardson)[**Gilman C. Parker** Last master; wrecked the ship in 1885](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZRCM0GA5/gilman-c-parker)[**Sir James Cochrane** Chief Justice of Gibraltar; presided over the salvage hearing](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/people/FIG0D00ZQX06RTK/sir-james-cochrane) Catalog key**MYS** 0D00ZMQE21G3 Mary Celeste was a two-masted brigantine of 198 tons as built and about 282 after her enlargement, built at Spencers Island, Nova Scotia, and launched as Amazon in 1861; wrecked in 1867, rebuilt and re-registered in New York, and extensively refitted in 1872⁠[[1]]. On 7 November 1872 she cleared New York for Genoa under Captain Benjamin Briggs, 37, a Massachusetts master of good reputation, with his wife Sarah, their two-year-old daughter Sophia, a first and second mate, a steward and four German seamen, and a cargo of 1,701 barrels of commercial alcohol⁠[[1]]. On 4 December the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia, which had left New York eight days after her, sighted her about 400 miles east of the Azores, yawing under short sail with no one at the wheel⁠[[1]]. Oliver Deveau, the Dei Gratia's mate, boarded her and found no one. The ship was sound. About three and a half feet of water lay in the hold, a quantity that did not threaten her; one of the two pumps had been taken apart and a sounding rod lay on deck; the fore hatch and the lazarette hatch were open, the main hatch secured; the compass binnacle had been knocked over and its glass broken; the only boat, a yawl that had been lashed across the main hatch, was gone, and a length of the main peak halyard trailed over the side. The cabins were wet but orderly. The captain's chronometer, sextant and navigation book and most of the ship's papers were missing; the log remained, its last entry at 8 a.m. on 25 November placing the ship within sight of Santa Maria in the Azores, nine days earlier and some 400 miles west of where she now was⁠[[1]]⁠[[2]]. There was food and water for six months and no sign of fire or violence. Deveau and two men sailed her to Gibraltar, where the Vice-Admiralty Court sat from 17 December 1872 on the Dei Gratia's salvage claim. The Attorney General, Frederick Solly-Flood, suspected the salvors or the crew of murder, had the hull surveyed for marks of violence, and found none that survived scrutiny; the court awarded £1,700, about a fifth of the ship and cargo's value, on 8 April 1873, a sum low enough to record its suspicion⁠[[2]]⁠[[1]]. The ship was sailed on to Genoa, where nine barrels were found empty; they were of red oak, more porous than the white oak of the rest⁠[[3]]. Nobody from the Mary Celeste was ever found. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1884 story, which renamed her Marie Celeste and invented most of what the public remembers, began a century of embroidery⁠[[2]]. Of the 2 questions on this site, 0 are answered. The most likely answer to “Why did ten people leave a sound, provisioned ship in a small boat?”, not yet confirmed: briggs believed the ship was sinking or about to explode, and near land, and ordered a temporary abandonment…. ### Key questionsset by the editors [**Why did ten people leave a sound, provisioned ship in a small boat?** ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/questions/QST0D00ZW1T1XWM/why-did-ten-people-leave-a-sound-provisioned-ship-in-a-small)Most likely: briggs believed the ship was sinking or about to explode, and near land, and ordered a temporary abandonment… [All 2 questions ](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions/key-questions?mystery=mary-celeste) ## What is known The facts rest on the Gibraltar testimony of Morehouse, Deveau and the Dei Gratia's seamen, the survey reports commissioned by Solly-Flood, the consular correspondence of Horatio Sprague, and the New York shipping and insurance records; Charles Edey Fay assembled them in 1942 and later writers have added little that is new⁠[[1]]⁠[[2]]. The Dei Gratia's log and Deveau's testimony fix the finding at 38°20′N 17°15′W in the early afternoon of 4 December (entered as 5 December by sea-day reckoning)⁠[[1]]. The Mary Celeste's own log ends on 24 November at 36°56′N 27°20′W, and the slate on which the watch chalked positions ends at 8 a.m. on 25 November with the eastern point of Santa Maria bearing six miles south-south-west⁠[[1]]. The condition of the ship is the evidence. Sails: the lower topsail, jib and fore-topmast staysail set, the foresail and upper fore-topsail blown away, others furled or loose⁠[[4]]. Water in the hold about 3½ feet; the pump dismantled; a sounding rod on deck⁠[[2]]. The galley stove shifted, utensils washed about, a foot or two of water in the galley, no meal prepared⁠[[4]]. The yawl gone, and the main hatch it had covered intact⁠[[1]]. The chronometer, sextant and navigation book taken; the ship's register and the captain's papers taken; the log and slate left⁠[[2]]. Deveau described an orderly departure, not a flight⁠[[2]]. The cargo arrived in Genoa with nine barrels empty of their 1,701, and the empty ones were red oak⁠[[3]]. The ship herself was examined by a surveyor and a diver at Gibraltar, who reported marks on the bow that Solly-Flood took for a deliberate cut and stains on a sword and on the deck that he took for blood; the sword stains proved not to be blood, and the marks were judged weathering⁠[[2]]. The court's award and Solly-Flood's correspondence show he never gave up his suspicion; the record shows he never found anything to support it⁠[[2]]. **Map of the continent** [Open the full map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/map) [+][−] 1 **Spencers Island, Nova Scotia** Shipyard village Within 1 km 2 **New York Harbor** Port Within 10 km 3 **Rochelois reef, Gulf of Gonâve, Haiti** Reef A region 4 **Last logged position (36°56′N 27°20′W, 24 November 1872)** Sea position Within 10 km 5 **Santa Maria, Azores** Island Within 10 km 6 **Position where the Dei Gratia found the ship (38°20′N 17°15′W)** Sea position Within 10 km 7 **Gibraltar** Port Within 10 km Within 1 kmA regionNatural Earth ### Timeline **Timeline** Squeezed where little happened. Each mark is a published claim, by how it stands:AcceptedMost likelyStill possibleDisputedRuled out ## The search There was no search for the people. The Azores and the Portuguese and Spanish coasts were the only places a yawl could have reached, and no boat, body or wreckage was reported from them; Consul Sprague's letters to Washington in 1873 record enquiries and nothing found⁠[[1]]. The ship herself, sold on, traded for twelve more years, mostly at a loss, and on 3 January 1885 her last master, Gilman Parker, ran her onto the Rochelois reef in the Gulf of Gonâve, Haiti, and tried to claim on an inflated cargo; he was tried for conspiracy in Boston, the jury failed to agree, and he died within months⁠[[2]]. In 2001 an expedition led by Clive Cussler announced timbers from a wreck on the reef as hers; tree-ring dating by Scott St George of the Geological Survey of Canada showed the wood came from trees still growing in 1894, so the find was not the Mary Celeste⁠[[2]]. The modern "search" has been analytical. In 2007 the documentary maker Anne MacGregor, with the physical oceanographer Phil Richardson of Woods Hole, re-examined the record for a Smithsonian Channel film. Richardson used the ICOADS historical marine data to model the derelict's drift from the 25 November position to where the Dei Gratia found her and showed that a crewless ship could have made that passage in the ten days available; MacGregor, working from Solly-Flood's notes on the log, found that Briggs had altered course to pass north of Santa Maria the day before, and that a chronometer error could have placed the ship about 120 miles west of where he believed she was, so that land he expected to sight three days earlier never appeared⁠[[3]]. The pump, the coal dust from the previous cargo and the debris of the 1872 refit, she argued, would have fouled the pump and left Briggs unable to tell how much water the ship had taken⁠[[3]]. ## The explanations Abandonment under a mistaken belief that the ship was sinking or about to explode is the reading the evidence favours. Its elements: a ship that had laboured in heavy weather for two weeks, water in the hold that could not be measured because the pump was fouled, open hatches and perhaps the smell of alcohol from leaking red-oak barrels, a captain who thought land was six miles off, and a decision to take the boat with the instruments and papers, perhaps on a line astern, until the danger passed⁠[[2]]⁠[[3]]. The line parted or the boat was swamped; the ship sailed on. Its strengths are that it uses every physical fact Deveau recorded; its weakness is that it requires an experienced master to leave a sound ship, and that the alcohol-vapour element has no support in the testimony, since Deveau reported no fumes and the main hatch was secured⁠[[3]]. The variant that a waterspout struck the ship, driving water into the galley and hold and giving a false pump reading through pressure on the sounding well, explains the galley's state and the binnacle but is a conjecture⁠[[2]]. Crime has been proposed in three forms. Mutiny by the crew, Solly-Flood's first theory, has no support: the four German seamen were of good character, nothing was taken, and the ship was not sailed anywhere⁠[[2]]. Collusion between Briggs and Morehouse to share a salvage award requires Briggs to have abandoned his family's lives and his own reputation for a fifth share of £1,700, and the two captains' acquaintance is itself uncertain⁠[[2]]. Murder by the Dei Gratia's crew is Solly-Flood's second theory and the court's implicit suspicion; it founders on the lack of any trace, on the absence of motive beyond salvage, and on the salvors' willingness to sail the derelict into a British port and submit to its court⁠[[2]]. Pirates from the Rif coast, sea monsters, seaquakes and the Bermuda Triangle belong to the literature that followed Doyle, not to the record⁠[[2]]. ### Published claims **Published claims and their status** | Year | Who | Claimed | Status | Reason | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1873 | Frederick Solly-Flood, Attorney General of Gibraltar⁠[5] | The crew got at the alcohol, killed the captain, his family and the mate, and escaped in the boat. | Disputed | Nothing was taken, the four German seamen were of good character, and the ship was not sailed anywhere, so no evidence supports it⁠[2]⁠[1]. | | 1910 | Arthur N. Putman⁠[6] | A sailor took a light into the hold, the cargo's fumes went off in small explosions, and the frightened crew took to the boat and cut it loose. | Still possible | Explosion remains one form of the false-alarm reading, but Deveau reported no fumes and no damage⁠[3]⁠[2]. | | 1942 | Charles Edey Fay⁠[1] | Pirates or mutineers would have looted the ship, and since the crew's valuables were left, the people left of their own accord. | Accepted | Every later account accepts that nothing was taken, and no evidence of violence has been found⁠[2]. | | 2006 | Andrea Sella⁠[7] | Leaking alcohol vapour could have ignited in a pressure-wave flame that left no soot or scorching, which would explain a panic without a trace. | Still possible | The model test shows such a flame is possible, but nothing in the testimony shows that one happened⁠[3]. | | 2007 | Anne MacGregor and Phil Richardson⁠[3] | A chronometer error put the ship about 120 miles west of where Briggs thought, and with a fouled pump he believed she was sinking near land and took to the boat. | Still possible | The displacement is argued from the course change and drift modelling, not measured from the log⁠[3]. | | 2007 | Paul Begg⁠[2] | Briggs ordered a temporary abandonment because he feared the ship was sinking or about to explode, and the yawl was then lost. | Most likely | It accounts for every physical fact Deveau recorded, but it needs an experienced master to leave a sound ship and cannot be shown⁠[1]⁠[3]. | | 2026 | Jack Rowbotham and Frank Mair⁠[8] | Warm ethanol vapour in the hold could explode hard enough to blow off a hatch without leaving burn marks, frightening the crew off the ship. | Still possible | A scale-model test shows it is possible; the authors say they do not know what happened after such an explosion⁠[8]. | ## What would settle it Little can. The people are gone, the yawl is gone, and the ship was wrecked on a reef where her timbers have not been found⁠[[2]]. Two things would help. The first is a complete modern edition of the Gibraltar proceedings, the survey reports and Solly-Flood's notes, which exist in the Gibraltar archives and the British and American consular files but have been read in full by few since Fay⁠[[1]]. The second is the chronometer question: if the ship's chronometer error can be bounded from the earlier positions in the log, MacGregor's 120-mile displacement becomes a measurement rather than an argument⁠[[3]]. A record of a boat or wreckage reaching the Azores or Iberia in December 1872, in Portuguese archives, would close the account of the yawl; none has been found. ## Questions 0 of 2 questions are answered. **Key questions** [All 2](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions/key-questions?mystery=mary-celeste) **0** [Why did ten people leave a sound, provisioned ship in a small boat?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/questions/QST0D00ZW1T1XWM/why-did-ten-people-leave-a-sound-provisioned-ship-in-a-small) 0 of 1 sub-questions answered·0 Most likely: briggs believed the ship was sinking or about to explode, and near land, and ordered a temporary abandonment… ## Evidence 14 findings [Why did ten people leave a sound, provisioned ship in a small boat?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/questions/QST0D00ZW1T1XWM/why-did-ten-people-leave-a-sound-provisioned-ship-in-a-small)12 findings [Briggs believed the ship was sinking or about to explode, and near land, and ordered a temporary abandonment…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D00ZWHE4P6K/briggs-believed-the-ship-was-sinking-or-about-to-explode-and)Most likely +[One pump was dismantled and a sounding rod lay on deck; the hold held 3½ feet of water that could not be measured.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZWS869YX/one-pump-was-dismantled-and-a-sounding-rod-lay-on-deck-the)Established +[The last slate entry put Santa Maria six miles off; MacGregor's reading of the log and a chronometer error place the ship about 120 miles west.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZX124KTS/the-last-slate-entry-put-santa-maria-six-miles-off)Suggestive +[Nine barrels were found empty at Genoa; they were red oak, more porous than the rest.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZX8W1878/nine-barrels-were-found-empty-at-genoa-they-were-red-oak)Supported +[The main peak halyard trailed over the side, consistent with the yawl having been attached to the ship.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZXGP4HA1/the-main-peak-halyard-trailed-over-the-side-consistent-with)Suggestive +[Richardson's drift model shows a crewless ship could have reached the finding position from the 25 November position in ten days.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZY0A6J91/richardsons-drift-model-shows-a-crewless-ship-could-have)Supported −[Deveau reported no fumes and the main hatch was secured, which weakens the explosion-fear element.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZXRG6E8S/deveau-reported-no-fumes-and-the-main-hatch-was-secured)Supported [A waterspout or sudden squall struck the ship, flooding the galley and hold and giving a false reading of the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D00ZY843RJM/a-waterspout-or-sudden-squall-struck-the-ship-flooding-the)Still possible +[The galley stove was shifted, the binnacle knocked over, and sails blown out.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZYFY4Y6B/the-galley-stove-was-shifted-the-binnacle-knocked-over-and)Suggestive −[The departure was orderly, with instruments and papers taken, not a panic.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZYQR4SJP/the-departure-was-orderly-with-instruments-and-papers-taken)Supported [The crew murdered the officers and family and fled in the boat.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D00ZYZJ3XS5/the-crew-murdered-the-officers-and-family-and-fled-in-the)Disputed −[No sign of violence was found; the sword stains proved not to be blood; nothing was taken.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZZ7C7H80/no-sign-of-violence-was-found-the-sword-stains-proved-not-to)Established −[The four seamen were of good character and none was ever heard of again.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZZF631DA/the-four-seamen-were-of-good-character-and-none-was-ever)Supported [Briggs and Morehouse conspired to abandon the ship for a salvage award.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D00ZZQ03M9B/briggs-and-morehouse-conspired-to-abandon-the-ship-for-a)Disputed −[The award was £1,700, a fifth of the value, and the salvors were themselves suspected and penalised.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D00ZZYT41A4/the-award-was-1-700-a-fifth-of-the-value-and-the-salvors)Supported [The Dei Gratia's crew killed those aboard and claimed salvage.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D01006M03V7/the-dei-gratias-crew-killed-those-aboard-and-claimed-salvage)Disputed −[Solly-Flood's survey marks and stains did not survive examination; the testimony was consistent.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D0100EE7GQ4/solly-floods-survey-marks-and-stains-did-not-survive)Supported [Where was the ship when she was abandoned, and where did Briggs think she was?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/questions/QST0D00ZW9M0578/where-was-the-ship-when-she-was-abandoned-and-where-did)2 findings [The slate position was correct; the ship was near Santa Maria and was abandoned there or soon after.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D0100Y21T58/the-slate-position-was-correct-the-ship-was-near-santa-maria)Still possible +[Richardson's drift model shows the passage is possible from the slate position.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D01015W74AJ/richardsons-drift-model-shows-the-passage-is-possible-from)Supported [A chronometer error placed the ship about 120 miles west of the slate position; Briggs expected land that did…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/answers/ANS0D0101DP709W/a-chronometer-error-placed-the-ship-about-120-miles-west-of)Still possible +[MacGregor's reading of Solly-Flood's notes on the log and of the course change north of Santa Maria.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/evidence/EVD0D0101NG76RV/macgregors-reading-of-solly-floods-notes-on-the-log-and-of)Suggestive ## Artifacts The films, photos, papers and objects this mystery rests on, each with its own key and its distance from the original. **Artifacts** Transcription1 step from object [Vice-Admiralty Court of Gibraltar proceedings in the Dei Gratia salvage claim, 1872–1873](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0102540165/vice-admiralty-court-of-gibraltar-proceedings-in-the-dei) Charles Edey Fay (1942) · publisher Document1 step from object [The Mary Celeste's log and log slate](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0102MR0ZSQ/the-mary-celestes-log-and-log-slate) unknown (produced at Gibraltar in 1872; present whereabouts not established) Photo1 step from object [The ship Mary Celeste (ex Amazon)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0102WJ250N/the-ship-mary-celeste-ex-amazon) unknown artist, 1861 (attributed by Begg, tentatively, to Honoré Pellegrin) · Public domain Transcription2 steps from object [The Dei Gratia's log, entries for 4 and 5 December 1872](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0103VT5RV4/the-dei-gratias-log-entries-for-4-and-5-december-1872) Charles Edey Fay (1942) · publisher Transcription2 steps from object [The Gibraltar survey and diver's reports on the derelict](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0104BE5YW0/the-gibraltar-survey-and-divers-reports-on-the-derelict) Charles Edey Fay (1942) · publisher Transcription2 steps from object [Consul Horatio Sprague's correspondence on the Mary Celeste](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mary-celeste/artifacts/ART0D0104V21N0Z/consul-horatio-spragues-correspondence-on-the-mary-celeste) Charles Edey Fay (1942) · publisher ## See also [ **Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)** Franklin's 1845 Arctic expedition, whose 129 men died after their ships were iced in. ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/franklin-expedition) [ **America's missing scientists, 2021–2026** Deaths and disappearances among US aerospace, nuclear and fringe-physics workers, 2021–2026, and whether any are connected. ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists) [ **Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370** A Boeing 777 with 239 aboard that vanished in 2014, thought lost in the Indian Ocean. ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/mh370) [ **Flor de la Mar** A Portuguese flagship wrecked off Sumatra in 1511 with the plunder of Malacca. ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/flor-de-la-mar) ## References 1. 1.[Fay, C. 1942. 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Report to the Board of Trade on the Mary Celeste.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D00ZMQE3ZR0/report-to-the-board-of-trade-on-the-mary-celeste)cited 1 time here**SRC** 0D00ZMQE3ZR0 1. 6.[1910. The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. Los Angeles Herald Sunday Magazine, 30 October 1910.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D00ZMZ844KN/the-mystery-of-the-marie-celeste)cited 1 time here**SRC** 0D00ZMZ844KN 1. 7.[Lee, A. 2006. Solved: The mystery of the Mary Celeste. UCL News (from The Express), 20 May 2006.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D00ZN725TP7/solved-the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste)cited 1 time here**SRC** 0D00ZN725TP7 1. 8.[Wakley, M. 2026. Chemists think they know what happened on board the Mary Celeste. Chemistry World.](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D00ZNEW5BK6/chemists-think-they-know-what-happened-on-board-the-mary)cited 1 time here**SRC** 0D00ZNEW5BK6 Last edited 27 Oct 2026