The Ghost Ship That Sailed Itself: What Happened Aboard the Mary Celeste?
The Mary Celeste left New York on November 7, 1872, bound for Genoa. She was an American brigantine of some 282 tons, and her hold carried 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol destined to fortify Italian wine. Her master was Benjamin Spooner Briggs, a Massachusetts sea captain of thirty-seven, devout, sober, and by every account careful and well regarded. He did not sail alone. With him were his wife, Sarah, their two-year-old daughter Sophia, and a hand-picked crew of seven, among them the Frisian brothers Volkert and Boz Lorenzen and the German sailors Arian Martens and Gottlieb Goudschaal, men Briggs himself had described as peaceable and first-rate. The Briggs' seven-year-old son Arthur had been left at home with relatives so as not to miss school. Ten people sailed.
The last entry on the ship's log slate was dated November 25, near the Azorean island of Santa Maria. It recorded nothing unusual.
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