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Crewless and Adrift

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Brigantine Amazon entering Marseilles in November 1861. In 1868 she was renamed Mary Celeste. She was found drifting with nobody aboard in November 1872, and is the source of many maritime "ghost ship" legends.

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On or about this day in 1872, crew members aboard the brig Dei Gratia spotted an unmanned ship adrift in the seas near the Azores Islands. You may use the comment thread on this page to ponder the fate of the Mary Celeste, or to pursue other points of off topic, freewheeling discourse.

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