![]() There he applied for the bounty that was due him for rescuing the derelict and its cargo. Puzzled, the captain of the Del Gratia divided her crew and brought both ships into Gibraltar. The Mary Celeste was partially under sail and abandoned. On December 4, after roughly a month at sea, the crew of a Canadian vessel, the Dei Gratia, sighted an odd vessel sailing toward them off the coast of the Azores. When he sailed the Mary Celeste out of New York Harbor in 1872, it was the last time anyone would see him, or anyone else on the vessel, alive. He was Christian, not fond of drinking and fair and even tempered. ![]() Briggs was well-respected as a seaman, and as a man in general. 1861 painting of the Mary Celeste (then called Amazon)īy November, the ship had taken on a cargo of denatured alcohol, which is undrinkable but commonly used for fuel and other industrial purposes.Ĭaptain Briggs, then 37, handpicked his crew of seven and made space on the ship for his wife and daughter. ![]()
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