"Other explanations have suggested paranormal intervention; an undated edition of the ""British Journal of Astrology"" describes the ""Mary Celeste"" story as ""... a mystical experience, connecting it by processes of reasoning beyond the power of ordinary human understanding, with the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, the lost continent of Atlantis, and the British Israel Movement."" The Bermuda Triangle has been invoked, even though ""Mary Celeste"" was abandoned in a completely different part of the Atlantic. Similar fantasies have considered theories of abduction by aliens in flying saucers. ""Mary Celeste"" left Genoa on June 26, 1873, and arrived in New York on"
"her that he intended to leave on Tuesday, adding that, ""Our vessel is in beautiful trim and I hope we shall have a fine passage."" On Tuesday morning, November 5, ""Mary Celeste"" left Pier 50 and moved into New York Harbor. The weather was uncertain, and Briggs decided to wait for better conditions. He anchored the ship just off Staten Island, where Sarah used the delay to send a final letter to her mother-in-law, in which she wrote: ""Tell Arthur I make great dependence on the letters I shall get from him, and will try to remember anything that happens"
"September 19. The Gibraltar hearings, with newspaper stories of bloodshed and murder, had made her an unpopular ship; Hastings records that she ""... rotted on wharves where nobody wanted her."" In February 1874, the consortium sold the ship, at a considerable loss, to a partnership of New York businessmen. Under this new ownership, ""Mary Celeste"" sailed mainly in the West Indian and Indian Ocean routes, regularly losing money. Details of her movements occasionally appeared in the shipping news; in February 1879, she was reported at the island of St. Helena, where she had called to seek medical assistance for her"
"captain, Edgar Tuthill, who had fallen ill. Tuthill died on the island, encouraging the idea that the ship was cursed—he was her third captain to die prematurely. In February 1880, the owners sold the ""Mary Celeste"" to a partnership of Bostonians headed by Wesley Gove. A new captain, Thomas L. Fleming, remained in the post until August 1884, when he was replaced by Gilman C. Parker. During these years, the ship's port of registration changed several times, before reverting to Boston. There are no records of her voyages during this time, although Brian Hicks, in his study of the affair,"
"day she is still fondly referred to as “Mother Mazzarello” by the Salesian Sisters. When several of the sisters were headed to the South American missions, she accompanied them to their port of call in Genoa, Italy, and then took a boat to France so that she could visit the sisters there. In Marseilles their ship broke down and had to be repaired. All of the passengers were forced to disembark while it was dry docked. Although the Sisters had been told that lodging had been prepared for them, there was a mix-up and they were left without beds to"
"asserts that Gove tried hard to make a success of her. In November 1884, Parker conspired with a group of Boston shippers, who filled ""Mary Celeste"" with a largely worthless cargo, misrepresented on the ship's manifest as valuable goods and insured for US$30,000 ($ today). On December 16, Parker set out for Port-au-Prince, the capital and chief port of Haiti. On January 3, 1885, ""Mary Celeste"" approached the port via the channel between Gonâve Island and the mainland, in which lay a large and well-charted coral reef, the Rochelois Bank. Parker deliberately ran the ship on to this reef, ripping"
"cargo of flour, ""West Elcasco"" departed Seattle on 31 October, bound for the east coast. After stopping briefly at San Pedro, California, she transited the Panama Canal and arrived at New York on 2 December. With her cargo consigned to European food relief, she got underway for Europe on 8 December and arrived at Gibraltar on the last day of 1918. From the strait, she proceeded to the Adriatic Sea and arrived at Trieste, Italy on 11 January 1919. After discharging part of her cargo there, ""West Elcasco"" shifted to Gallipoli, on the Dardanelles, where she delivered the remainder of"
"the Atlantic. On 17 July 1956, ""Andrea Doria"" set sail from her home port of Genoa on what should have been a routine nine-day crossing between Italy and the United States. It was to be her 51st westbound crossing. Before setting course for the open Atlantic, she made stops at three ports where the Italian Line had established passenger terminals to pick up more passengers. She first stopped at the French port of Cannes, then returned to the southeast to Naples on 18 July before making her last stop at Gibraltar on 20 July. After leaving Gibraltar, she had a"
"port of registry was Marseilles. Her maiden voyage was from Livorno, Italy to New York, United States via Tarragona, Spain, Bône, Algeria, Almería, and Málaga, Spain. Most of her service was between ports in the Mediterranean and New York. On 4 December 1883, ""Alesia"" was spotted by under sail at as her steam engine was out of action. In September 1887, ""Alesia"" was placed in quarantine on arrival at New York due to an outbreak of cholera. Eight people had died from the disease on the journey from Marseilles, France and Naples, Italy. By 10 October, the death toll was"
"left Charleston on 17 January, and proceeded independently back to Hampton Roads, arriving there on 19 January. She embarked 54 U.S. Army passengers at Newport News and departed on 23 January in convoy for Naples, at first facing heavy weather but otherwise making an uneventful transatlantic crossing. After passing through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea, she left the convoy on 7 February to steam independently to Naples; her engineers shut down her port boiler when it began to malfunction on 9 February, forcing her to continue at reduced speed, but she arrived safely at Naples on 11"
"Argentina while returning to Rome on 27 August 1936; she relocated to the generalate on 11 November 1936. She made another sojourn on 28 January 1937 after leaving on the steamship ""Rex"" to visit homes in New York City in the United States of America - she returned to Rome on 6 March 1937. In 1938 her health was poor but she spent time in Genzano with the Pastorelle Sisters. Her father died on 9 March 1941 and she decided to spend a period of deep reflection back in Alba in August 1941. On 8 September 1941 - on Alberione's"
"began service to New York in May and continued through December. Beginning in May 1912, ""Mendoza"" began year-round service on the New York route, sailing opposite . In 1914, the ship was renamed SS ""Caserta"" after the city of Caserta, Italy, and continued New York service opposite ""Taormina"". In May 1915, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, and ships from New York to Italy often carried Italian immigrants returning to fight for their homeland. One voyage of ""Caserta"" was typical; she sailed from New York on 1 November carrying some 1,200 men, nearly all of whom were, according to an article"
"to New York City. These were delivered in 1953 and 1954 as SS ""Andrea Doria"" and SS ""Cristoforo Colombo"", respectively, re-establishing Italy in the transatlantic service business with the finest ships to serve on the New York—Mediterranean run. But the ""Andrea Doria"" sank after just three years of service on 25 July 1956 after colliding with the Swedish American Line ship . This left the Italian Line in need of a second ship on the North Atlantic run. Immediately following the sinking of the ""Andrea Doria"" the board of the Italian Line was divided into three groups: one group participated"
"machinery trouble forced her back into New York the following day. After almost three weeks in port, she got underway again on 18 September, this time as an escort to a Gibraltar-bound convoy. She fueled at Ponta Delgada in the Azores and made Gibraltar in early October. From there, she sailed with a convoy for Marseilles on 10 October. For the next month, she made several Gibraltar-to-Marseilles circuits with Allied convoys. After the Armistice, she sailed to Venice, Italy, to investigate post-armistice conditions there and at various other ports on Italy's Adriatic coast and in Dalmatia. At the completion of"
"arrived in Norfolk, Virginia on 3 November 1945. She departed Norfolk on 8 November and arrived at Le Havre, France on the 17th. She departed Le Havre on 19 November and arrived back at her home port of New York on 27 November. She then departed New York on 10 December, bound for Marseille, arriving there on 20 December. She departed Marseilles on 22 December, arriving at New York on 1 January 1946. She decommissioned at Norfolk on 22 March 1946 and returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal on 27 May 1946. She was returned to the Italian"
"1945. Her first Coast Guard commanding officer was Commander George R. Leslie. He took command on 6 August 1945 and was replaced the next day by Captain R. S. Patch, USCG. The vessel remained under repair at Todd's Shipyards, Brooklyn, until 2 October. During this time all of her armament was removed. She departed New York, bound for Naples, on 8 October 1945, with 176 Italian officers, 5,590 Italian Army enlisted men, 13 U.S. Army officers and 34 Army enlisted men, a total of 5,813. She arrived at Naples safely on 19 October. She departed Naples on 22 October and"
"story of her 1872 abandonment has been recounted and dramatized many times, in documentaries, novels, plays and films, and the name of the ship has become a byword for unexplained desertion. The keel of the future ""Mary Celeste"" was laid in late 1860 at the shipyard of Joshua Dewis in the village of Spencer's Island, on the shores of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. The ship was constructed of locally felled timber, with two masts, and was rigged as a brigantine; she was carvel-built, with the hull planking flush rather than overlapping. She was launched on May 18,"
"after visiting Cape Town, Lagos, Freetown, Monrovia, Dakar, and Casablanca, steamed into the Mediterranean for calls at Naples, and Palermo before heading home. On 25 November, ""Portsmouth"" got underway to return to the Mediterranean. Arriving at Naples on 7 December, she shifted around the peninsula to Trieste at the end of the month, and until February 1947 cruised in the politically turbulent Adriatic. The following month, she returned for another two weeks at Trieste and in April she sailed for the United States. The following November, she again steamed east to the Mediterranean, returning to the east coast for overhaul"
"voyage after the Armistice was from Genoa to Marseille and New York on 27 April 1919. In 1920, she was refitted to carry second- and third-class passengers only. She continued Mediterranean–New York sailings until 1922 when she was transferred to South American service. On 26 October 1923 she made one roundtrip from Genoa to Naples, Palermo, and New York. She was scrapped at Genoa in 1929. SS Re d'Italia SS ""Re d'Italia"" was an Italian ocean liner for Lloyd Sabaudo named for the King of Italy (). Launched in 1906, she sailed between Italy and New York and South America"
"got underway for Bari; Phaleron Bay, Greece; Larnaca, Cyprus; Malta and Gibraltar, her last stop in the Mediterranean before sailing 14 April 1953 for the United States, arriving Norfolk on the 26th. She steamed up and down the East Coast, travelling as far north as Thule, Greenland and as far south as Bermuda until February 1954. She was then assigned another tour of duty in the Mediterranean and revisited the previous ports and such new ones as Iskenderun, Turkey; Genoa and Naples, Italy; Sete and St. Louis du Rhone, France before heading home in June. In January 1955 she departed"
"were completely silenced by the . Stopping at Toulon 22 September, she reached Palermo on the 24th. For the next seven months she swept mines in the vicinity of Palermo and the port of Cagliari, Sardinia, and conducted brief rests at Naples, Leghorn, and Genoa. She got underway from Palermo 15 June 1945 for return to the United States arriving in New York 30 June 1945. While at New York, she underwent repairs until 16 August 1945 when she put to sea for the Pacific. She sailed by way of San Pedro, California, on a cruise to the Hawaiian, Marianas,"
"to that city in October 1947. This visit coincided with the announcement by the Western powers that Trieste would be turned over to newly formed Italian government. The citizens of the city chose the opportunity to demonstrate in favor of the decision and the crowd surged onto the pier where the ""Dayton"" was tied, causing concern over the security of the ship. The ship then sailed to Venice, tying up at San Marco Square. After a short visit in that city the ship returned to Trieste and shortly after returned to Boston on 30 November 1947. Following local operations from"
"been on board were ever seen or heard from again. ""Mary Celeste"" was built in Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia, and launched under British registration as ""Amazon"", in 1861. She transferred to American ownership and registration in 1868, when she acquired her new name, and thereafter sailed uneventfully until her 1872 voyage. At the salvage hearings in Gibraltar, following her recovery, the court's officers considered various possibilities of foul play, including mutiny by ""Mary Celeste""s crew, piracy by the ""Dei Gratia"" crew or others, and conspiracy to carry out insurance or salvage fraud. No convincing evidence supported these theories, but unresolved"
"Bay after the storm subsided the ship headed for its first liberty port, Reggio di Calobia, on the Italian Riviera. The ship arrived on 1 February and stayed until 6 February. Departing Reggio on a Friday the ship arrived at Brindisi, Italy, the following day for a seven-day training anchorage visit. The ship then proceeded to Villefranche, France, arriving on 16 February. ""Barnstable County"" left Villefranche on 23 February and proceeded to Monte Romano, Italy, where she carried out more amphibious training late in February. Early in March, the ship made a four-day port call at Naples, putting to sea"
"as they did not consent to the death penalty for barratry. This came to a head in the destruction of in 1885. ""Mary Celeste"" was already infamous since 1872 after being discovered adrift but in good condition with no one on board. This became a high-profile case. In 1885 her last owner, Captain G. C. Parker, was accused of barratry, in that he deliberately ran her aground and burned her, then made an exorbitant insurance claim for a non-existent cargo. Despite this obvious attempt at insurance fraud, and clear evidence of his guilt, five of the twelve jurors refused to"
"command. ""West Ekonk"" sailed to Port Costa, California, and took on a load of wheat flour and sailed for New York, via the Panama Canal, on 24 July. After reaching New York on 27 August, ""West Ekonk"" joined a France-bound convoy, departing on 4 September. ""West Ekonk"" arrived at Brest, France, on 19 September, discharged her cargo, and headed back to New York on 30 September. She took on a load of freight consigned to the Italian government and set out for Genoa in early November. ""West Ekonk"" was en route to Italy when the Armistice that ended fighting was"
"on May 22, 1908. She sailed to New York via Italy, stopping to visit Venice and Naples with other missionaries and military officers aboard her ship. Heston had felt ill and tired throughout much of her later years in India, which she felt may have been linked to her grief after the death of her half-sister in 1904 and the loss of another missionary working at the General Hospital in Miraj. Upon her return to New York, she was advised by a nerve specialist to take a ""rest cure"" and remain on bed rest for at least four weeks. In"
"several ports until her departure on February 23, 1916 from Newcastle for South America. The vessel arrived at Montevideo on April 3, continued on to Buenos Aires two days later where she loaded among other things 8,341 bags of dried blood for New York. The ship arrived in New York on May 5, 1916 and after unloading was immediately chartered for cargo delivery to China. About 10,500 tons of cargo was loaded onto the vessel, including 200,000 cases of oil and 500 bales of cotton. The ship left New York on June 21, passed through the Panama Canal on July"
"Canal to the Far East. She completed eight round voyages on this service and was then transferred on 3 March 1903 to the Bremen - Cherbourg - New York City route for a single voyage. On 16 April 1903 she went to the Genoa - Naples - New York City run and stayed mainly on this service until commencing her last voyage on 11 June 1914. On the outbreak of World War I, SS König Albert, like many of her sister ships, was interned in a neutral country to avoid capture by the Royal Navy. When Italy joined the war"
"more voyage with American troops when she sailed from Marseille to New York on 22 April. Among the 1,500 troops on board when the liner docked in New York on 8 May, were nearly 550 men from the 7th, 50th (""Dutch Girl""), 650th and 658th Aero Squadrons; the 50th Aero Squadron had located the ""Lost Battalion"" in October 1918. When ""Caserta"" resumed regular passenger service in 1919, she began sailing under the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) banner; NGI, which previously had a controlling interest in Lloyd Italiano, took over completely in 1918. ""Caserta"" resumed New York service in July, which"
"7 December 1918. She developed engine trouble and paused for repairs at Taranto, Italy, before proceeding to Trieste, Italy, where she discharged her cargo of flour. ""Western Hope"" departed Trieste on 16 March 1919 and steamed via the Strait of Gibraltar to Newport News, Virginia, where she arrived on 21 April 1919. Decommissioned at Newport News on 5 May 1919, ""Western Hope"" was simultaneously struck from the Navy list and transferred back to the U.S. Shipping Board. Once again SS ""Western Hope"", the ship operated commercially under Shipping Board control until laid up in 1923. After that, she never returned"
"United States and arrived in Norfolk on 20 September. Five days later, the ship once more set out for the Mediterranean Sea, this time to repatriate some 3765 former Italian prisoners of war. After stopping at Naples and Marseille, she returned to Newport News, Virginia, on 19 October. Between that time and mid-December, the ship made two more round-trip voyages to France and back, one to Le Havre and the other to Marseille, returning American servicemen home. On 29 December, she put to sea to return to the Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, the transport embarked troops and continued her voyage"
"for the Philippines. Proceeding via Guam, she arrived at Manila on 13 November 1945; later touched at Subic Bay, Samar, and Leyte; and made two other visits to Manila before departing the Philippines on 22 January 1946. She sailed to San Pedro, California, and thence moved south to the Canal Zone before making port at New York on 9 March. Decommissioned on 29 March 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida, the ship was subsequently towed to Mayport, Florida, in April 1948, for berthing. She remained in reserve there until the communist invasion of South Korea in the summer of 1950."