In fall 1872, the Mary Celeste was loaded with a cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs left his home in Marion, Massachusetts ...

Speculation about what happened to the “Mary Celeste,” found empty on this day in 1872, was so rife that even famed author Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a sensational short story about it Eli ...

The abandoned Mary Celeste remains one of the great mysteries of the sea. The 103-foot brigantine had sailed for Genoa from Staten Island 125 years ago today, on November 7th, 1872, under the ...