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Mary Celeste

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Mary Celeste
brigantine found drifting with no hands aboard. [Br. Folklore: Leach, 683]

Mary Celeste
ship found in mid-Atlantic with sails set, crew missing (1872). [Br. Hist.: Espy, 337]
See : Mystery


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Ghost ship; the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and missing crew.
Readers seeking a gripping true sea mystery will already know of the legend of the Mary Celeste, found drifting with crew missing in 1872: Brian Hicks tackles this 130-year old mystery in Ghost Ship : The Mysterious True Story Of The Mary Celeste And Her Missing Crew, re-creating events leading up to the disappearance and revealing the aftermath of suspicion and intrigue which followed a puzzling investigation after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sensationalized the event in fiction.
As I read aloud the first page, I come to this sentence: "The Mary Celeste is about a ship whose crew disappeared when they were on the high seas more than 120 years ago.
 
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