| The Marie Celeste, (in fact, in reality it was called | | | | re-named her Mary Celeste. On 5 November |
| the Mary Celeste), is the greatest maritime | | | | 1872, the ship set sail from Staten Island, New |
| mystery of all time. She was built in 1861 by | | | | York bound for Genoa, Italy under the command |
| Joshua Dewis in Nova Scotia, Canada and was | | | | of Captain Benjamin Briggs. She was carrying a |
| initially named the Amazon. The Amazon was | | | | cargo of seventeen hundred barrels of |
| rather calamitous; her first captain died of | | | | commercial alcohol, intended for fortifying Italian |
| pneumonia within a week of taking charge; his | | | | wines in Genoa; it was expensive stock with a |
| replacement struck a fishing trawler, forcing the | | | | current evaluation of over half a million US dollars. |
| ship to return to the shipyards for repairs where | | | | The souls on board the Mary Celeste included the |
| it subsequently caught fire; on it's first | | | | captain and seven crew, the captain's wife Sarah |
| trans-Atlantic crossing it once again collided with | | | | and their two-year-old daughter Sophia Matilda. All |
| another vessel. | | | | of the crew were very experienced, trustworthy, |
| In 1867, she ran aground during a storm in Glace | | | | able and seriously competent, but as it sailed |
| Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada; it was the final straw, | | | | away from the hustle and bustle of New York, it |
| her owners, sick and tired of it's bungling sold her | | | | would be the last time that any of the ten were |
| to James H. Winchester of New York City, who | | | | seen again, alive or dead. |