"""Carroll A. Deering"" was found in the Atlantic with no crew aboard. The lifeboats were missing and the theories surrounding the ship included ""piracy, mutiny, and insurance fraud."" The most notorious of all ghost ships is the ""Mary Celeste"" – it has been called ""the greatest maritime mystery of all time."" The ship was found wet after a storm by the crew of ""Dei Gratia"", because the ship was opened to air out. One theory surrounding the vessel is that the crew needed to air out the ship from chemical fumes from the alcohol. The crew had left everything because"
"Mary Celeste Mary Celeste (; often misreported as ""Marie Celeste"") was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7, and on discovery was still amply provisioned. Her cargo of denatured alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had"
"vessel's hull. Postage stamps commemorating the incident have been issued by Gibraltar (twice) and by the Maldives (twice, once with the name of the ship misspelt as ""Marie Celeste""). Mary Celeste Mary Celeste (; often misreported as ""Marie Celeste"") was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November"
"Benjamin Briggs Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced United States seaman and master mariner. He was the Captain of the merchant ship ""Mary Celeste"" when she was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean near the Straits of Gibraltar on December 4, 1872. The lifeboat was missing, yet the ""Mary Celeste"" herself was still under sail and there were signs of a sudden and unexplained abandonment. Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah and their two-year-old daughter Sophia Matilda, were never found and are presumed lost, along with the crew of ""Mary Celeste"". The"
"of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier ""Cyclops"", carrying a full load of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss. In addition, two of ""Cyclops""s sister ships, and were subsequently lost in the North Atlantic"
"12 July, having been at sea for nearly three years. ""Endeavour"" was largely forgotten after her epic voyage and spent the next three years sailing to and from the Falkland Islands. She was sold into private hands in 1775 and later renamed as ""Lord Sandwich""; she was hired as a British troop transport during the American War of Independence and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in 1778. Her wreck has not been precisely located but is thought to be one of a cluster of five in Newport Harbor. Relics are displayed at maritime museums worldwide,"
"It had been corked using a small piece of cut pine tree and, other than the occasional trees caught in fishing nets, was the only remains of the vessel discovered for many years. The message read: In December 1912 Christmas Trees and wreckage were reported ashore at Pentwater, Michigan In 1924 a fishing net trawled up a wallet belonging to Captain Schuenemann. The wallet, well preserved because it was wrapped in oilskin, contained business cards, a newspaper clipping and an expense memorandum. In 1971 the wreck itself was discovered by scuba diver Gordon Kent Bellrichard from Milwaukee. Bellrichard was searching"
"with which the ship was once armed only one remains, complete with its gun carriage. The hold has not been excavated and thoroughly examined, but in it are coal and a large quantity of stoneware Bartmann jugs, probably containing wine destined for the Swedish market. The divers who first located the wreck brought up the glass bottle that bore the crest of the English Boynton or Ogle families, a bowl, a drinking cup and one of the Bartmann jugs. Since the official announcement of the find in 2007, only two further objects have been brought up for analysis. One, the"
"identified despite extensive searches of records. Over 120 European ships are known to have been lost in the Americas by 1520, but none of them can be matched to the Molasses Reef Wreck. The lack of personal possessions in the wreck indicates that the crew was able to abandon ship, but there are no signs that the Spanish tried to salvage the armament on the ship. Four sets of bilboes were found at the wreck site. The bilboes may have been for use in punishing crew members, but they were also used to restrain slaves aboard ships. The ship may"
"possibly have seen Palmyra from that distance.) On November 7, 1802, the USS ""Palmyra"" under Captain Cornelius Sowle was shipwrecked on the reef, which was given the name of this vessel. The remote atoll, lacking a navigable boat passage through the reef from the sea, had never been inhabited. No marae, basalt artifacts or evidence of Polynesian, Micronesian or other pre-European native settlements before 1802 have been found on Palmyra. Captain Sawle wrote: There are no inhabitants on the island, nor was any fresh water found; but cocoanuts of a very large size, are in great abundance; and fish of"
"the waves. While all the crew lived, only a fraction of the cargo was saved. Various people tried to locate the wreck, but none were successful until Pro Vrouw Maria discovered it in 1999. Interest in the ship rose in the 1970s when Dr. Christian Ahlström discovered documents regarding the incident in the national archives of Finland. He published his findings in a book called ""Sjunkna Skepp"" in 1979. The cargo, as declared in Helsingør, Denmark, on September 23, included sugar, fabrics and dyes. The ship also carried works of art that Catherine the Great had bought at auction in"
"store in New Bedford. In 1872, however, Benjamin Briggs bought a share in the brigantine ""Mary Celeste"", owned by James Winchester, and made modifications to the cabin to house his family. In late 1872, two-year-old Sophia and his wife Sarah accompanied him on the ill-fated voyage from Staten Island, New York, to Genoa, Italy. Their son Arthur stayed with his grandmother at Rose Cottage, Marion, Massachusetts, to attend school. The following month Briggs' ship was found inexplicably abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean near the Straits of Gibraltar. Briggs, his wife and daughter, and the crew of the ""Mary Celeste"" were"
"the waters there. The atoll was discovered in 1822 when the English whaleships ""Pearl"" and ""Hermes"" ran aground on the surrounding reefs. The two ships had been en route to Japan from Honolulu through the uncharted waters of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Sometime late in the evening of April 24 or early in the morning of April 25, the 258-ton ""Hermes"" ran agound on an unseen reef. Shortly thereafter, the 327-ton ""Pearl"" also ran aground when it approached to provide assistance. The combined crews of both ships, some 57 sailors, were marooned on an unspecified island nearby for several months."
"set to continue sailing at roughly two knots. The abandoned craft was found at 7:50 am on July 10, 1969, by Royal Mail Ship ""Picardy"" captained by Richard Box at latitude 33° 11’ North, longitude 40° 28’ West, about 1,800 miles from England. This was very close to where the famous ghost ship ""Mary Celeste"" had been found almost a hundred years before off the coast of the Azores. As designated by maritime tradition, three foghorn blasts were given by the ""Picardy"", and when no response by flare, flag or horn was returned, a team of sailors boarded the trimaran"
"during the War of 1812 was discovered in Shanks Harbor in the United States. Artifacts from the wreck of the ""Atlantic"", a 19th-century liner which sunk off the Marshead, Nova Scotia coast in April 1873 included a tile from the ship's staircase and a heavy ""dead eye"", used to secure rigging for the ship's mast. The Underwater Society kept several volumes containing statistics, reports, diagrams, photographs and other pertinent information on the shipwrecks. The wrecks were discovered in the St. Lawrence River from Lake St. Francis to Kingston, Ontario, the Rideau Canal and the Ottawa River from Montreal, Quebec to"
"the tanker was found but no people. Still very little is known about the disaster, and the hearing after the accident was held behind closed doors. The principal theory holds that the cause could have been explosions caused by oil residue in the cargo compartments. MS ""Berge Vanga"" was, like its sister ship which disappeared under similar circumstances four years earlier, a ship which could transport both oil and iron ore. After these two disappearances no more combination ships like this were built, and oil was never again transported alongside ore. MS Berge Vanga MS ""Berge Vanga"" was an ore-bulk-oil"
"and heavy turret made her highly unseaworthy in rough waters. This feature probably led to the early loss of the original ""Monitor"", which floundered during a heavy storm. Swamped by high waves while under tow by ""Rhode Island"", she sank on December 30, 1862 in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras. Sixteen of 62 crewmen were lost in the storm. In 1973, the wreck of the ironclad ""Monitor"" was located on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean by an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Duke University’s Marine Laboratory. The discovery was preceded by extensive historical research and the selection of"
"""Millie Grew"" No bodies were ever recovered. In the Spring of 1880 an upturned hull identified as that of the lost ship was found on Moberly Island, and later that summer a tug was employed to turn it over to allow investigators to determine why the ship sank. Following the ship's disappearance there had been rumours that her wooden superstructure was rotten, or that her boilers had blown up. Those at the scene found what timbers that remained to be sound, and there was no sign that the hull had been damaged by an internal explosion. Other parts of the"
"""discovery"" in 1770. Captain of the French expedition, La Vicompte de La Perouse was on a scientific tour of the world, probably with imperialist underpinnings, and sought to replenish his supplies and rest his crew. They landed at a small bay next to Yarra Bay, now known as 'Frenchman's Bay' where they set up a stockade and planted European vegetable seeds in a plot that became known as 'the Frenchman's Gardens', probably intended to feed the crew on the return trip home. After setting sail in March 1788 La Perouse was never seen again (by Europeans) and the ruins of"
"expedition, according to Robeson's instructions. Under Buddington's authority, discipline on the expedition declined, as the crew was allowed to carry weapons and stay up all night. Buddington himself raided the ship's medical supply of alcohol and was known to have been drunk. On June 2, 1872, after an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole, the expedition turned south to head back to the New York Navy Yard. Having been caught in an ice pack, 19 crew members were separated from the ship on an ice floe and floated 1,800 miles before being rescued. The remaining crew on board the"
"anchor but no treasure. In 1913 the two bower anchors, carried at the ship's bow, each weighing were recovered and put on display in Amsterdam. Consideration was given by Lloyd's to setting the anchors up as a monument behind the Royal Exchange in place of a statue to Sir Robert Peel, but this was not carried out and only the wooden stocks, marked ""Lutine"" were forwarded to Lloyd's. Reportedly the outbreak of World War I prevented another salvage attempt. In 1933 an attempt was made to salvage the reported treasure, but was stopped when the salvage bell was wrecked by"
"Kestrel (clipper) The Kestrel was a British clipper ship that was built in 1871 with coal-fueled steam engines and three masts. She spent her career carrying goods across the Atlantic. On 11 February 1895 she was anchored at Santos, near São Paulo, Brazil, when she was caught in a tropical storm. Her anchor chain broke, and she was driven aground on to Boqueirao Beach. All but three crewmen were ashore when the ship was grounded, including Captain Cochrane. The remains of the ship were rediscovered in 2017 after they were uncovered by a storm. Built in December 1871 at the"
"launched under the control of the quartermaster; and the forward deck boat, appropriated by Rogers and his associates. No trace of the occupants of these boats was ever found. In mid-November 1854, Gourlay's empty boat was picked up by the schooner ""Lily Dale"", in good condition and with its oars still inside. In mid-December the port guard boat was washed ashore at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, again with no indication of the fate of its occupants. New York first heard of the disaster on October 11, with the arrival of the survivors rescued by the ""Lebanon"". Later that day, Baalham's report,"
"the ship throughout March, retrieving all 28 eighteen-pounder guns from the upper deck, and all 18 nine-pounders from the quarterdeck. The larger cannons were pushed into the sea and the ship was then burned to the waterline and abandoned. On 24 July 1781, Joseph Woodbridge of Groton, Connecticut sent a letter to George Washington offering to sell him sixteen 32-pounders from the wreck, and on 14 July 1815, Samuel Jeffers arrived in Newport, Rhode Island with 12 tons of pig iron and a 32-pounder from the wreck. In 1971 Henry W. Moeller, an undersea archaeologist associated with Dowling College, discovered"
"at 10 A.M. on November 6, 1875. He was brought ashore at Port Townsend, Washington, weak from exposure. His rescue was the first indication the rest of the world had that ""Pacific"" had sunk. A number of vessels, including USRC ""Walcott"" were dispatched to look for survivors. Henley's impromptu raft also hosted Captain Howell, the second mate, a cook, and four passengers including a young lady. Waves washed some off the raft, and others died of exposure, leaving Henley alone. He was finally rescued by the ""Walcott"" at 3 A.M. on November 8, 1875. ""Orpheus"" continued her voyage north after"
"Land Tortoise (shipwreck) The Land Tortoise was a military transport ship built for service on Lake George, New York during the French and Indian War. The vessel, a radeau (raft), was built in 1758, and was intentionally sunk later that year with the intention of raising her for use in 1759. This did not happen, and the sunken vessel was discovered in 1990. Its site is a National Historic Landmark and a state-protected underwater preserve. It is believed to be the oldest intact warship in North America, and is the only surviving ship of its type. The site is accessible"
"being lost to cholera during the journey. It was later reported that ""New Era"" was a leaky ship with both crew and passengers required to man pumps during the voyage. ""New Era"" grounded in a dense fog in the morning hours of the 13th after a 46-day voyage across the Atlantic. On September 15, 2012 an archeological search was performed with ground penetrating radar in an attempt to locate a memorial marker lost to the sea shortly after it was placed in 1893 by Asbury Park founder James A. Bradley. The monument was not found. - By Julius Friedrich Sachse"
"Dei Gratia (brigantine) Dei Gratia was a Canadian brigantine built in Bear River, Nova Scotia in 1871. The brigantine was named after the Latin phrase for ""By the Grace of God"". ""Dei Gratia"" became famous in 1872 when, under the command of David Reed Morehouse, she discovered the mystery ship ""Mary Celeste"" found sailing abandoned without any crew near the Azores. Morehouse and his crew took the derelict ""Mary Celeste"" to Gibraltar and claimed the brigantine as salvage. They were at first subjected to suspicion by Gilbraltar's Attorney General but the Vice Admiralty Court later approved their salvage and commended"
"were found in 1975, and in 1980 a wooden hull weighted down by ballast stones, iron cannonballs and artifacts of 17th-century Spain were found. The S.S. ""Central America"" sank after running into a hurricane off the Carolina coast in 1857. In 1987 Thomas G. Thompson discovered the ship's location. A remotely operated vehicle surfaced more than forty million dollars in gold from the sunken ship. In 1782 the British Frigate Grosvenor sank in Natal Bay, East Africa, carrying treasure cargo of 2,000 silver ingots, 720 gold ingots, and jewels including the fabulous ""golden peacocks"" from the throne of the Great"
"rescued by the Spanish. Although all the silver coins listed on the manifest were recovered immediately after the storm, no silver or gold ingots were listed as being on board or as having been recovered; however, archaeologists recovered some gold and over eighty pounds of silver ingots. It is concluded that these unmarked pieces were contraband not originally recovered because they were not very accessible and the owners did not want to make a fuss over them lest the government salvage officials find out they had been smuggling strenuously controlled goods. In addition, items used by the crew were recovered"
"Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker is an historic burial monument in the cemetery at Scullville Bible Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, along County Route 559 near Somers Point. It was built in 1887 and added to both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Capt. Jeffries (1829-1887) is known for his association with the ship ""Twenty One Friends"", which, following an incident at sea, floated without crew across the Atlantic Ocean for two years before being claimed and returned to service. The Capt. John"
"were at their height. A cabin door was found in the vicinity of Thunder Bay. United States Army Air Service airplanes were dispatched from Mount Clemens, Michigan, to conduct a search in Saginaw Bay in the vicinity of Tawas City, Michigan. Debris started washing up on the Canadian shore. No bodies were recovered, implying that the sinking was quick without deployment of lifeboats. No mechanical malfunction has yet been discovered or any other definite cause of her sinking. Speculation at the time, which continued to be published decades after the tragedy, was that the newly-installed self-unloading gear could have broken"
"is unlikely that he knew about it. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20717 RMS Atlantic RMS ""Atlantic"" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of in April 1912. ""Atlantic"" was"