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150 Years of Myth and Mystique
4 December 1872: The brigantine Dei Gratia chances upon another brigantine out on the Atlantic near the Azores. She is the Mary Celeste. She is under sail. But she is deserted. Silent as a drowned cadaver.
For 150 years since then, the mystery of why the Mary Celeste was abandoned, and what happened to the ten souls on board, has spawned thousands of conjectures, conspiracy theories, fictions and fantasies. Some have thought they solved the mystery. Some have just spun yarns. One, at least, has claimed it was all a hoax.
The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste: 150 Years of Myth and Mystique unveils those stories – the ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’ and the myths fabricated from fractured truths. These are the real facts in search of a truth that remains unfathomable to this day.
5th January, 2023 in Maritime
Queen’s Proctor Mr Solly-Flood heard ‘so extraordinary a picture’ of the Mary Celeste incident by the testimonies of Deveau, Wright, Lund, Anderson and Johnson, up to 22 December 1872, that he was aroused to suspect that there might have been more nefarious acts in play that caus…
27th January, 2022 in Maritime
Graham Faiella, author of the Thrilling Tales of the Sea series, recounts five tales of ships that were attacked by whales. The Essex The whaleship Essex sailed from Nantucket on 12 August 1819, commanded by Capt. George Pollard and crewed by twenty men for a whaling voyage…
8th October, 2019 in Maritime
Many tragic and awful things happened to mariners and other seafarers in the age of deep-sea sailing ships. Cannibalism: The ‘Custom of the Sea’ After the American schooner Sallie M. Steelman was battered by a storm off Cape Hatteras in December 1877, it drifted, derelict, for ov…
