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Monday, 17 August 2009

Where can I Find Pictures of the Mary Celeste Ghost Ship?

Google Images Provides some great Images of the Mary Celeste Ghost Ship:

The Mary Celeste was a Brigantine Merchant Ship famously discovered in early December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned. The Mary Celeste was in perfect condition and still under full sail heading towards the Straits of Gibraltar. The ship had been at sea for only a month and had over six months of food and water on board. Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The crew was never seen or heard from again, and what happened to them is often cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time.

The Mary Celeste is often described as the archetypal ghost ship in the sense that it was discovered derelict without any explanation.

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