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	Mary Celeste Home page
		As he found nothing but the sea to satisfy him, he bought the Mary Celeste in 1872 and, as his wife was ready to go with him, he had some changes made to the arrangement of the cabin in order to make things more convenient for her.
		Deveau and the two sailors who with him brought the Mary Celeste to Gibraltar, where they went into the Admiralty Court suing for salvage compensation, were coached by attorney, and it was or seemed to be their advantage to make the situation or condition as bad for the vessel as possible.
		BriggsThe Mary Celeste was built at Spencer Island and registered at Parrsboro, N. as the Amazon, a single deck vessel with cabin and forward house on deck, a half-brig rig with a large single topsail.
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	NOAA History - Stories and Tales of the Weather Service/Storm Tales/ Sinbads genie and the mary celeste
		Mary Celeste, the Argosy of an Abandoned Ship, by Charles Edey Foy, invites a critical examination of the weather leading up to the mystery of that modern Flying Dutchman found forsaken on the High Seas 70 years ago.
		From this speculation, the Mary Celeste must have experienced winds prevailingly south of west from November 25th as reported by the Meteorological office at the Azores and another period of light airs on December 4th as reported by the Dei Gratia.
		Likely, in the neighborhood of the Mary Celeste, the wind was south of west most of the time from November 25th to December 1st, since from November 27th while the Dei Gratia was approaching from the 20th parallel– that vessel had winds that were mostly west-northwest to northwest.
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	Mary Celeste
		Mary Geleste was built in 186o, thc maiden venture of a consortium of pioneer shipbuilders at the shipyards of Joshua Dewis on Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia.
		Generally such a vessel is a wreck, but Mary Celeste, a seaworthy ship, and her valuable cargo were worth a substantial sum, and the salvors could expect to make perhaps as much as $80,000.
		Mary Celeste was returned te James H. Winchester and, under the command of Captain George W. Blatchford.
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	Mary Celeste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In such a case, it is suggested, the water surrounding the boat may, in being sucked upwards, have given the impression that the Mary Celeste was sinking.
		The Mary Celeste floated away from their location and by the time the shark attack was over, Fosdyk was the only survivor, and he was unable to reach the ship.
		In the 2001 science fiction horror movie, She Creature, the Mary Celeste's later life was speculated upon; the story followed that a carnivorous mermaid killed and ate all bar one of the passengers and crew during a recrewed 1901 voyage of the ship.
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	The Mary Celeste
		The Mary Celeste was a Canadian built, 100 ft brigantine of 282 tons from Marion, MA.
		The Mary Celeste was sailing for Genoa on November 7, and the Dei Gratia was to head-out a week later for Gibraltar.
		Sometime after eight in the morning on the 25th, something dreadful happened on board the Mary Celeste causing an experienced master mariner to place his wife and 2-year-old daughter into a twenty-foot yawl with eighteen inches of freeboard and 7 other adults besides himself, and hastily abandon a perfectly sea-worthy, 101-foot, 282 ton vessels.
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	Wreck Of 'Ghost Ship' Mary Celeste Said Found
		Mary Celeste's last captain loaded her with a cargo of rubber boots and cat food before deliberately running her aground on Rochelais reef and then filing an exorbitant insurance claim for an exotic cargo that never existed.
		The Mary Celeste was discovered partially embedded in a small, inhabited island -- roughly the size of a football field -- created by millions of conch shells.
		Delgado wrote a letter giving his professional opinion that the ship was, indeed, the Mary Celeste, basing his conclusions on the identification of the wood species by David Etheridge, a wood scientist from Victoria.
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	Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Here she tells the tale of the "Mary Celeste, " which was discovered adrift on the open sea in 1872--with no sign of the captain or crew.
		When the crewless ship Mary Celeste was found adrift in 1872, there were no signs of pirates, mutiny, cholera or weather damage, and its cargo of raw alcohol was intact; only the lifeboat and navigational instruments were missing.
		The Mary Celeste was found adrift in the open sea with no one aboard, a full cargo hold, and enough supplies for a sixth month voyage.
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	MARY CELESTE
		That would have been 10 days earlier, when the Mary Celeste had been passing north of St. Mary's Island in the Azores — more than 400 miles west of where it was found.If it had been abandoned soon after that entry, the ship must have drifted unmanned and unsteered for a week and a half.
		It seems impossible that the Mary Celeste could have reached the spot it did with its yards and sails set to starboard.
		No one, from the 10 people that supposedly sailed aboard the Mary Celeste, including 7 crewmen and captain Benjamin Briggs' wife and daughter, was ever found.
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	The Mary Celeste - Fact Not Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ship was the 'Mary Celeste' of New York, a Canadian built 100 foot brigantine of 282 tons registered in New York.
		Conan Doyle's short story about the 'Marie Celeste' (he changed the name from Mary) turned a minor puzzle into one of the most famous legends of the sea.
		The 'Mary Celeste' had sailed from New York on November 7th bound for Genoa with a cargo of 1701 barrels of American Alcohol, shipped by Meissner Ackermann & Co., value approximatly $35,000 the purpose of which was to fortify wine.
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	Mary Celeste - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mary Celeste, an American brigantine found in the Atlantic Ocean on December 5, 1872, abandoned but under full sail.
		Mary (queen consort) (1867-1953), Queen Consort of Great Britain (1911-1936), the wife of King George V, and daughter of the German nobleman...
		Mary (Virgin Mary), also the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, venerated by Christians since apostolic times.
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	BioRaynorMaryCeleste
		ary Celeste RAYNOR (Alonzo, Joseph, Joseph ("Blind Joseph"), Joseph, Josiah, Joseph, Thurston, Edward Reyner, Robert Raynere) was born November 21, 1877 in Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois, the daughter of Alonzo and Lettie Lincoln RAYNOR.
		Mary must not have liked living so far away from her family, because by May of 1903, they were living in Murphysboro, Illinois where Ralph was employed as a Locomotive Machinist in charge of "road work" for the Mobile and Ohio (MandO) Railroad.
		alph and Mary lived in Murphysboro all of their married lives, with the exception of the short period they were in Alabama at the beginning of their marriage, and the period from 1927 - 1930, when Ralph was forced into moving his family to Columbia, IL to find work.
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	Mary Celeste@Everything2.com
		What we do know is that the Mary Celeste was found sailing erratically, about half way between the Azores and the Portuguese coast, by Captain Morehouse, of the ship Dei Gratia, on the fourth or fifth of December, 1872.
		The official report from British and American authorities after the Mary Celeste tragedy was that the crew had broken into the shipment of alcohol, gotten drunk, murdered the Briggs family, and escaped on the yawl boat.
		The most recent suggestion as to the Mary Celeste's fate is the theory she encountered a seaquake.
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	Riddle of the Mary Celeste \| Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board
		There was a German made- for -TV movie in 1972 on the Mary Celeste- and a UK 1935 attempt at explaining the mystery- starring my favorite- Bela Lugosi as the one-armed seaman- I think this is available for sale.
		Not because of specific similarities in the two tales, but because in the end the author is able to reveal the chain of circumstances that lead to a final, apparently inexplicable result with supernatural overtones.
		In which case, going on past diving experience, we'd probably only see a pile of ballast and a few odds and ends, unless she's either very deep or part of her hull is beneath the mud and silt line.
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	Etude \| Summer 2003 \| The Mary Kay Dream - Kelly Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Celeste stands at the front of the room during a Mary Kay weekly unit meeting to introduce her new recruit, a shy Peruvian woman named Fatima.
		Mary Kay Ash died in 2001, but beauty consultants continue to celebrate her vision of a company dedicated to enriching women’s lives – a company based on the philosophy that women who look prettier on the outside will have greater self-esteem and confidence.
		She was going to test herself by attending her first Mary Kay meeting since she hurt her back and spent four days in the hospital.
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	Honorable Mary A. Celeste - 2nd Judicial District - Denver County Judge - BE RETAINED - Member Resources - Colorado Bar ...
		Judge Celeste was appointed to the Denver County Court bench in April 2000.
		Prior to her appointment, Judge Celeste was a partner in a law firm specializing in personal injury cases and trusts and estates matters.
		Judge Celeste received her undergraduate degree from San Diego State University and her law degree from California Western University, where she was the editor-in-chief of the International Law Journal.
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		All sorts of crimes, from barratry to piracy, were suggested in an effort to explain, but none of them, from the most sanguinary to the most fantastic, were sufficient to account for the bewilderment of the case.
		The mate lashed the instrument fore and aft, but one day when the Marie Celeste heeled over suddenly the piano broke loose and crushed the captain's wife, who was playing it.
		Finally the Marie Celeste made the port of Santa Marta where the mate, the boatswain and one of the remaining crew deserted, leaving the ship to continue on her way with the cook and the three men who had been lent from the Dei Gratia.
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	Straight Dope Staff Report: What really happened to the
		Flood's first theory was that the Mary Celeste's original crew had broken into the cargo hold, gotten drunk on the alcohol, and then murdered Captain Briggs, his wife, his daughter, and mate Richardson.
		He stated that the captain had gotten into an argument with two of the crew as to how fast a fully clothed man could swim, and to settle the matter the three of them jumped into the water for a race, whereupon they were promptly gobbled up by sharks.
		In addition, once the Celeste was in the eye of the spout, the difference in pressures would have caused the hatches to blow off.
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	Legendary Ghost Ship, Mary Celeste, Discovered an a Reef in Haiti
		The MARY CELESTE sailed into oblivion when a boarding party from a passing ship found that her captain, his wife, two-year-old daughter and entire crew had inexplicably vanished.
		Archaeologist James Delgado, comparing the remains of the wreck with historical accounts and carefully studying the fragments, was confidently able to identify the wreck as MARY CELESTE.
		Footage of the MARY CELESTE expedition will be featured in a new National Geographic Channels International television series called "The Sea Hunters," set to air in 2002.
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	Mary Celeste
		The Mary Celeste was launched in 1861, from the shipyard at Spencer's Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy, under the name Amazon.
		On November 7, 1872, the Mary Celeste sailed under the command of Captain Benjamin Briggs bound for Europe with a cargo of wines and liquors.
		The condition of the Mary Celeste, at the time of her discovery at sea, vary according to the reporter.
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	Mary Celeste
		The disappearances of the crew of the Mary Celeste is one of the strangest sea mysteries of all time.
		On February 15th, 1872, the Mary Celeste was discovered drifting derelict by the crew of the Dei Gratia.
		Some of the many legends about the Mary Celeste suggest that she was found with fresh food on the table, or with a cat sleeping on one of the bunks, or that bloodstains were found on one rail (it turned out to be wine).
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	The Mary Celeste
		The brig Mary Celeste left New York with a cargo of alcohol, bound for Gibraltar.
		Upon sighting the Mary Celeste, and persuading her to heave to, he managed by means of large sums of money to persuade the captain to take Dougal and the haggis back across the Atlantic with him, and soon, they were all safe on board.
		In his haste to return the haggis, the Mary Celeste was forgotten about, and hence, days later, she was sighted by the Dei Gratia.
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	Telegraph \| News \| Wreck hunters find remains of Mary Celeste
		THE wreck of the Mary Celeste, the ship that sparked a great maritime mystery, has been discovered off Haiti by a team of marine archaeologists.
		In 1872, the Mary Celeste, sailing from New York to Europe with a cargo of alcohol, was found by another vessel, sailing off the Azores with no one aboard.
		From the moment it was launched in 1861, the Mary Celeste, originally named the Amazon, seemed cursed.
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	Mary Celeste
		The deck of Celeste was deserted and there were no signs of life.
		It seems likely that the men abandoned the Mary Celeste in a hurry because their personal possessions were still on the ship.
		Of course they may not have tied their lifeboat to the Mary Celeste.
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	The Mary Celeste: a very plausible explanation Skeptical Inquirer - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I first heard of the mystery of the Mary Celeste many years ago by way of a printed placemat at a restaurant on the outer banks of North Carolina.
		At considerable risk to both ships, the small crew of the Dei Gratia was split in two, with half going aboard the Mary Celeste to sail her to Gibraltar to claim her as salvage.
		In the end, the court did award prize money to the crew of the Dei Gratia, but the sum was much less than it should have been, the low amount being used as a punishment, even though the court could not prove any wrongdoing on the part of the crew.
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	The Mary Celeste
		However, because the mystery of the Mary Celeste remains unsolved, it continues to haunt the dreams of sea-faring men and women throughout the world.
		Captain Harris lost the Mary Celeste to his creditors and a man named Captain James H. Winchester then bought her.
		Tuesday morning, November 5th, the Mary Celeste left port going to Genoa, Italy with her cargo of alcohol.
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	ben byrne >> textures >> tangents >> the mary celeste
		The tale of the Mary Celeste is one of "the world's four greatest mysteries" and the "best-known sea mystery." A 103 foot brigantine first launched in 1861, she set sail for Genoa from New York on November 7, 1872.
		Although evidence pointed to a hasty departure, the reason for which remains a mystery, as does the explanation for how the Mary Celeste remained on her intended course for eight days and almost five hundred miles with no one on board.
		The Mary Celeste continued to sail for 12 years after being discovered by the Dei Gratia and was sold 17 times in that period.
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