In 1872, which British ship was discovered intact in the Atlantic unmanned and apparently abandoned with the incident often being cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time?
"The Mystery of the Mary Celeste The Mystery of the Mary Celeste is a 1935 film directed by Denison Clift and starring Béla Lugosi, Shirley Grey and Arthur Margetson. It is one of the early films from Hammer Film Productions. It is based on the story of the ""Mary Celeste"", a sailing ship that was found adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872, and is an imagined explanation of the disappearance of the crew and passengers. The version released in the United States, under the title Phantom Ship, is about 18 minutes shorter than the original. It is"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"Iceland and the Faroe Islands. She sank a single ship, the British merchant vessel about southeast of Cape Farewell (Greenland) on 17 November 1942. There were no survivors. On 21 November she was listed as missing with all 50 hands east of Newfoundland, in approximate position . ""U-184""s loss remains an unsolved mystery. It is possible that she was sunk by a Canadian plane or warship as a result of the Battle of the St. Lawrence. ""U-184"" was thought to have been sunk by depth charges from the Norwegian corvette , but in a post-war assessment this attack was later"
"after midnight on 27 March 1872, when almost in sight of home. It seems that in the heavy weather that prevailed at the time Captain Legoe mistook the Cape Grisnez light for that of Beachy Head on the other side of the Channel. There were no deaths or injuries, the passengers sheltering at the nearby town of Audresselles. Much of the valuable cargo (mostly wool) was saved, but the ship subsequently broke up and was totally lost. The Board of Enquiry found Capt. Legoe fully responsible but in view of his long and faultless service and high character, was given"
"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"
"HMS Ontario (1780) HMS ""Ontario"" was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. She was a 22-gun snow, and, at in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. The shipwreck was discovered in 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville. ""Ontario"" was found largely intact and very well preserved in the cold water. Scoville and Kennard assert that ""the 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes."" ""Ontario"" was"
"strangely deserted on the high seas. Rupert Gould, a naval officer and investigator of maritime mysteries, lists several such occurrences between 1840 and 1855. Whatever the truth of these stories, it is the ""Mary Celeste"" that is remembered; the ship's name, or the misspelt ""Marie Celeste"", has become fixed in people's minds as synonymous with inexplicable desertion. In October 1955, , a 70-ton motor vessel, disappeared in the South Pacific while traveling between Samoa and Tokelau, with 25 people on board. The vessel was found a month later, deserted and drifting north of Vanua Levu, from its route. None of"
"Soon after, the crew of ""Merlin"" abandoned ship and set their ship on fire. It blew up later in the day. The ""Augusta"" was the largest British vessel lost in combat by the Royal Navy in either the Revolutionary War or in the War of 1812. In the 1870s, rumors of gold in the wreck, which was still partially visible in the river, led to a recovery efforts that removed tableware, a watch, coins, and three cannons. An unsuccessful attempt to move the ship for display in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia failed, leaving the ship grounded again at"
"Elder. The much larger second type, the ""colossal octopus"", was reported to have attacked a sailing vessel from Saint-Malo, off the coast of Angola. Montfort later dared more sensational claims. He proposed that ten British warships, including the captured French ship of the line ""Ville de Paris"", which had mysteriously disappeared one night in 1782, must have been attacked and sunk by giant octopuses. The British, however, knew—courtesy of a survivor from ""Ville de Paris""—that the ships had been lost in a hurricane off the coast of Newfoundland in September 1782, resulting in a disgraceful revelation for Montfort. Since 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"
"insisted that she be auctioned off to satisfy their demand for wages. On 18 October of the same year, the ship was reportedly tied up at Hamburg, ""under attachment for indebtedness."" No notice of public auction has been found, and the documentary trail, such as it is, ends in 1928. Her exact fate remains unknown. The ""Albatross"" and the smaller ""Fish Hawk"" were credited with being the first large vessels built specifically for marine research. A Smithsonian tribute notes: ""The Albatross, designed to go anywhere in the world and work in the greatest depths, contributed more to our knowledge of"
"has Sherlock Holmes declare, as an aside, to Dr. Watson: How the ship, the mammal, and the Indonesian island are associated is not specified. Rats commonly colonize ships, and so there is an obvious line of speculation. Another train of thought follows the reasoning that Matilda Briggs actually ""was"" the name of a young woman as well as a fictional ship—for the famous ""mystery ship,"" the Mary Celeste, which was found abandoned at sea in 1872, had sailed under the command of Captain Benjamin Briggs, whose daughter, Sophia ""Matilda Briggs"", was a passenger on the doomed merchant brigantine. Doyle was"
"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"
"that they panicked when the ship was damaged by ice, launched the lifeboat, and swamped, though no bodies were found. The ship was towed into the nearby port, refitted and put out to sea again. No trace was found of her crew. The mystery of this ship earned it the nickname ""The Welsh ""Mary Celeste"""". Three years later, ""Resolven"" was wrecked while returning to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia with a load of lumber. Resolven (ship) The SV Resolven was a merchant brig which was found abandoned on 29 August 1884, with her lifeboat missing, between Baccalieu Island and Catalina, Newfoundland"
"in 1997, and £500 million in 1999. Marine archaeologists have long searched for the wreck, but it has never been found, not least because 500 other vessels lie at the bottom of the Firth of Forth. An eight-year search by the Burntisland Heritage Trust and the Royal Navy began in 1991. The Trust intended to open a museum in Burntisland exhibiting any artefacts that could be salvaged from the ""Blessing"". After finding 200 possible wreck sites within a two-mile area of the estuary, one wreck was closely inspected in 1993, and divers found pottery, shoe leather and bolts dating from"
"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"
"(then called New Holland) whence they would make a turn north towards Batavia. The ""Zuytdorp"" never arrived at its destination. No search was undertaken, presumably because the VOC had no idea whether and where the ship had been wrecked or taken by pirates and possibly due to prior expensive but fruitless attempts to search for other missing ships, even when an approximate wreck location was known. As a result ""Zuytdorp"" and its entire complement were never heard from again. Their fate was unknown until the mid-20th century when the wreck site was identified on a remote part of the Western"
"unaided. Though its occupant did not survive, a shrapnel-ridden Carley float carried the body of an unknown man to land on Christmas Island in February 1942. The sun-bleached corpse had evidently spent a lengthy period at sea, though to this day it remains unknown from where the sailor had come. It has long been suspected that the body was that of a sailor from HMAS ""Sydney"", which was lost with all hands under mysterious circumstances off the coast of Australia on 19 November 1941. A second Carley float, more confidently believed to be from ""Sydney"", was recovered drifting 300 km"
"""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"
"passengers. The silty environment has preserved the wreck for so long, however, shifting tidal flows started to expose the timbers and goods and thus spurred its salvage in 2017 by Historic England and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. 1748 According to legend the ""Lady Lovibond"" was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on 13 February 1748, amidst alleged controversy over the cause of her sinking in which all hands were lost. She is said to reappear every fifty years as a ghost ship. No references to the shipwreck are known to exist in contemporary records or sources, including newspapers,"
"voyage from Liverpool to New York City, which began 23 January 1856. ""Pacific""s fate remains a mystery to the present day. A message in a bottle found on the remote island of Uist within the Hebrides (a widespread archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland) in 1861 declared her sunk by icebergs. In 1991, wreckage located in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales was claimed, without corroboration, as being the SS ""Pacific"". For several decades prior to the 1840s, American sailing ships had dominated the transatlantic routes between Europe and the United States. With the coming of"
"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."
"distress frequency. However, no message was received from ""Pollux"" or ""Truxtun"" until after these ships had also grounded. ""Wilkes"" found herself stranded to port of ""Pollux"", ""Truxtun"" to starboard. About 07:00, ""Wilkes"" succeeded in backing clear of the beach. After seeing that ""Pollux"" had received help from , she left the scene. However, ""Pollux"" and ""Truxtun"" were totally lost, along with the 205 men who went down with them. The casualty list from the two lost ships was the Atlantic Fleet's largest list of the war up to that time. No deaths occurred on ""Wilkes"". She remained at Argentia for"
"troop transports, guarding them from elements of the German Navy. While en route to aid a blockade, she was torpedoed and sunk on 19 March 1917 by a German U-boat, leaving 296 men dead. The location of the wreck remained a mystery until an underwater survey team inadvertently discovered the battleship in December 2007. In February 2009, the wreck was confirmed to be ""Danton"". The ship is in remarkably good shape for her age. ""Danton"" rests upright on the ocean floor, and most of the original equipment is reported to be intact. Although the s were a significant improvement from"
"location of his grave is unknown. After two years and no word from the expedition, Lady Franklin urged the Admiralty to send a search party. Because the crew carried supplies for three years, the Admiralty waited another year before launching a search and offering a £20,000 reward for finding the expedition. The money and Franklin's fame led to many searches. At one point, ten British and two American ships, and , headed for the Arctic. Eventually, more ships and men were lost looking for Franklin than in the expedition itself. Ballads such as ""Lady Franklin's Lament"", commemorating Lady Franklin's search"
"summer of 1955 she disappeared from view. According to the contractors, it remains the largest salvage operation ever carried out in British waters.A memorial stone was placed near the sea wall at Marazion and later moved a short distance. The stone was unveiled by Admiral Sir Charles Madden and prayers were read by a former crew member. The remains of the masts lie in the yard at Porthenalls House, Prussia Cove and one portion was erected on a headland, overlooking Prussia Cove. One of her 15-inch tompions and her chapel door held by the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth. Her"
"crews of ""Resolute"", still frozen in, and reported to be in fair condition despite having taken on some water during the summer thaw. Unlike the loss of and , the events surrounding ""Investigator""s abandonment are not a mystery. McClure provided an official account of the journey, and the ship's surgeon Alexander Armstrong published an unofficial account in 1857. However, the location of the wreckage was not known for over 150 years because of difficulties reaching the area, which is inhospitable and often covered in ice. Oral traditions of the Inuit tell stories of the ship. The abandoned ship was a"
"Franklin expedition to traverse the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. After Franklin's death in June 1847, he took command of the expedition, and his fate and those of the other expedition members remained a mystery until 1859, when a note from him and James Fitzjames, captain of the ""Erebus"", the other ship on the expedition, was discovered on King William Island during an expedition led by Sir Francis McClintock. Dated , the note said the ships, stuck in ice, had been abandoned. Nine officers, including John Franklin, and 15 crewmen had died, and the survivors were setting out"
"reported. It also had the wrong Captain, there being no record of Hadrop ever being a captain of the ""British Isles"" and sailing from a port it is not known to have visited. In 2006 a further version was published. In this version the ""Marlborough"" was found by a British Royal Navy vessel off the coast of Chile in 1913. Neither the naval vessel nor its captain were named, nor was the source of the information. Given the interest in ""Marlborough"" in the newspapers of 1913, it is highly improbable that there is any truth in Quinn's claim. Such a"
"Lady Lovibond The Lady Lovibond (sometimes spelled Luvibond) is the name given to a legendary schooner that is alleged to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of south-east England, on 13 February 1748, and is said to reappear there every fifty years as a ghost ship. No contemporary records of the ship or its supposed sinking are to be found. The story goes that the ship was at sea on 13 February because her captain, Simon Reed (in some accounts named Simon Peel), had just been married, and was celebrating the occasion with a cruise."