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Learn about the mystery of the Mary Celeste with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. In December 1872, a ship was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's sails were raised and it was in a seaworthy condition. Yet it appeared to be bobbing quite strangely rather than sailing. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the crew of the ship was missing.

On 5th December 1872, Captain David Reed Morehouse sighted the Mary Celeste, an American half-brig carrying 1,700 barrels of commercial alcohol, apparently calling for help. The fluttering he took to be a distress signal was a ripped, tattered sail; the wheel was unmanned; the master, Captain Briggs; his wife; their two-year-old daughter; and the entire crew had disappeared. Frederick Solly Flood, attorney general of Gibraltar, can see only one possible cause - mutiny and murder. In a tense courtroom, he is determined to prove a dreadful crime has been committed; turning a civil inquiry into a criminal prosecution.

In 1872, the Mary Celeste merchant ship set sail from New York, bound for Italy. About a month later, it was spotted adrift in the ocean. The crew had vanished. The ship’s charts were found scattered, and crew members’ belongings were still onboard. The lifeboat was missing.

In 1872, the ship Mary Celeste was found drifting with no one on board. Explore the last known facts of the ship and some of the theories of the whereabouts of her crew.

The "Mary Celeste" (or Marie Celeste as it is wrongly referred to several writers) was a British merchant brigantine. The ship is best known for having been discovered on 5 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and apparently abandoned, although the weather was fine, the ship intact and her crew experienced and capable seamen. The "Mary Celeste" was in sound and seaworthy condition and was under full sail heading for the Strait of Gibraltar.

Osserva, analizza, rifletti, agisci. Questo è il mantra di Bessie Gray, la cui vita monotona si svolge tra i cento passi che separano il Katy’s, il locale dove lavora come cameriera, e il suo appartamento, dove trascorre le serate al sicuro sotto le coperte, in compagnia di un buon libro e una tisana calda, evitando accuratamente di lasciarsi travolgere da qualunque emozione. L’affascinante Jacob Butler è l’opposto di Bessie: impulsivo e determinato, è alla costante ricerca di brividi e adrenalina.

Für Kapitän Benjamin Spooner Briggs gestaltet sich die Suche nach einer geeigneten Mannschaft für sein neuerworbenes Schiff, die Mary Celeste, unerwartet schwer. Das Gerücht, der Zweimaster sei ein Unglücksschiff, auf dem es spuke, hat sich im Hafen von New York unter den abergläubischen Seelauten verbreitet. Kapitän Briggs will dennoch von all dem nichts wissen. Die Mary Celeste soll eine Ladung Industriealkohol nach Genua transportieren und es darf keine Zeit verloren werden. Und so sticht die Mary Celeste am 7. November 1872 hoffnungsvoll in See.

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