Ghost Ship The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

The Mary Celeste was cursed the moment she was launched from the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage; in London, she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig; later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of Benjamin Spooner Briggs. Later that year, on December 4, the 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board and showing no sign of a struggle. Award-winning journalist Brian Hicks vividly re-creates the events leading up to the crew's disappearance and then unfolds the bizarre aftermath. To date, every possible speculation, from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction, has been used to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. Yet in this stunning book, Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth.Hicks, Brian is the author of 'Ghost Ship The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew', published 2005 under ISBN 9780345466655 and ISBN 0345466659.