The Mary Celeste: The Ghost Ship Found Sailing Empty (1872)
On 4 December 1872 the crew of the Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste drifting between the Azores and Portugal, seaworthy, well supplied and empty. Ten people were gone, along with the only lifeboat. What the salvage court heard, how fiction rewrote the story, and why the leading explanation is a hurried abandonment.