#mary celeste ghost ship

[frayedcircus]

happy 151 years since the mary celeste departed from NYC with 1,701 barrels of industrial strength alcohol, heading to genoa, italy

on board was captain benjamin spooner briggs, plus his wife, sarah, his two year old daughter, sophie, and 7 crew members

almost a month later, on december 5th, the ship was found floating around the mid atlantic. not even 1 of the 10 original passengers was on board, and we still have no confirmed theory of what happened to them

#thsi is the abridged version there’s a whole bunch of interesting theories #highly recommend researching the topic it’s very interesting #i’ve written like 2000 words on it for a school thing but i don’t think anyone wants that full version #mary celeste #mary celeste ship #ghost ship #mary celeste ghost ship

[ltwilliammowett]

Mary Celeste, by Vincent Alexander Booth, 2016

#naval art #mary celeste #ghost ship #19th century #age of steam

[fiftysevenacademics]

I'm falling down a Mary Celeste rabbithole this rainy Saturday morning.

#mary celeste #shipwrecks #ghost ships #my stuff

[holycatsandrabbits]

Want to write a mystery based on history? Check out my blog for 8 posts about the unsolved past, with writing prompts!

The Beast of Gevaudan: History’s most well-documented werewolf, France, 1764

The Female Stranger: unidentified decedent, Virginia (US), 1816

Spring-Heeled Jack: well-documented apparition or cryptid, England 1837-1904

The Flannan Isles Disappearance: three lighthouse keepers vanished, Scotland, 1900

The Star Tiger and Star Ariel, two planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, 1948-49

Dyatlov Pass: mysterious deaths of 9 hikers, Ural Mountains, 1959

And the ghost ships Mary Celeste (1872) and Carroll A. Deering (1920, pictured above)

A ghost ship prompt:

A run of bad luck. Those on board a doomed ship might have invited a curse as the result of unwise decisions, whether that be mutiny, murder, or just generally running afoul of sea superstitions. If the crew themselves were cursed, or if they carried a cursed item with them, this could explain why a ship which picked up the crew also went down itself.

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[emperorsfoot]

There needs to be more movies about ghosts at sea.

#ghost ship #sphere #nautical ghost stories #orang medan #silver star #marie celeste #maritime ghost stories are so much better #the Boop #which I guess would be a creature not a ghost #there are plenty of creature features #I want ghosts

[yarnmessexpress]

The ghost ship Mary Celeste is out there just waiting to be turned into a movie. Historical romance, ghost horror, futuristic alien/sci-fi, Doctor Who ep...

#doctor who #hello bbc. #ghost ship #mary celeste

[gudaho]

Sure they all died when they captained the Mary Celeste, but Im different and the ship would have cared for me tenderly

#mary celeste #ghost ship #maritime history

[chillfuel]

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#Top Ghost Ship Mystery #Most Mystery Mary Celeste

[knightotoc]

#ships poll #star wars #star trek #dracula #ever given #titanic #greek mythology

[stuckasmain]

3001 has me thinking about graves.

Are astronauts adrift in space any different from the body’s of sailors adrift at sea? Would disturbing them to either bring them home or revive them be disturbing a grave? Is it like a shipwreck where sometimes it’s just best to let them lie there?

Everyone knows where the spot is, it’s well marked and most divers and boats will steer clear to let them rest. Would space be any different? Would all of the solar system be a resting place?

Discovery is referred to as “the Mary Celeste of space” a ghost ship. When they are found they’re explored, and what happened can be speculated. The ship can even be brought back if possible but what happens if you ever find one of the ghosts adrift?

Does Frank feel as though his rest has been disturbed? As if he’d been pulled from the grave without much regard for his own thought? Or is that just an idea we have for people we cannot recover as they can’t say way they think?

#2001 a space odyssey #2001 aso #frank poole #3001 the final odyssey #ghost ships #space travel #astronaut #sailor #character study #angst

[meduseld]

Your favorite Ghost Ship

Real, fictional or rumored,

#Polls #Ghost ship #Ghost ships #Of myth legend reality and media #Dracula and 1899 and more! #Anyway this only exists bc i catastrophically misread someone else's poll and went y'know... #Poll #Tumblr polls

[frayedcircus]

one day

who else is excited for the 151 year anniversary

#ghost ship #mary celeste

[aaanggang]

What is a favorite fact that you like but feel like you never have a chance to share? More than one favorite is also totally acceptable.

Oooohhh I’ll give my favorite avatar fact and then my favorite non avatar fact.

In ATLA I love the fact that Aang’s friends from his early years were from all over the world. Air nomads are travellers obviously, but showing how aang made friends everywhere with almost anyone is so him and I love the inclusion of their little stories and how even though they’re not around anymore he still thinking about them and is inspired by them.

My favorite non ATLA fact is the story of the Mary Celeste, widely considered the first popularized ghost ship. Sir Arthur Con Doyle wrote a short horror story about her, popularizing her with the public. Her story has been dramatized and stretched, but the real facts are even more interesting. She was discovered floating some 300 miles away where she should be, with not a soul on board, 3 feet of standing water below deck, her sails torn, but otherwise in perfect sailing condition. She had a small crew transporting goods from America including coal and ALCOHOL. There’s hundreds of theories about where her crew of about seven men disappeared to, but the one I believe is that since it was storming for a full week previous to the abandonment (as noted in the ships logs) the fumes of the alcohol built up into toxic levels— the captain of the ship had brought aboard his wife and his infant daughter. While the fumes may not have been enough to take out an adult, he was worried about the baby. So in order to air out the ship, they took a dingy and tied it to the ship, boarded the crew on it, and planned to wait out the fumes a safe distance from the ship and tow themselves in once it was safe. They would have left up the sails and left all their belongings there, as they planned to return.

But the rope snapped, and the Mary Celeste wasn’t anchored. The ship slipped away from the dingy while they tried to catch up, but they failed, and the ghost ship was born.

THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT MY FAVORITE FACT THIS HAS BEEN A MESSY RETELLING OF THE MARY CELESTE

#i didn’t look up any of the details I just went on my memory so I’d the crew count is wrong that’s why #this was fun great ask I love it #mary celeste

[allsoundwavesarebeautiful]

another tiny inconsequential detail i like is in the Heart of Darkness miniseries where it's shown Galvatron knows what the Mary Celeste is for no reason. it implies he likes boats and/or ghost ships (because even if he researched Earth for his purposes there's no reason for him to come across old Boat Mysteries unless he looked for them specifically) but it's never brought up again

#soundwave posts

[holycatsandrabbits]

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Mary Celeste: Famous Mystery of the Sea

The Mary Celeste was an American-registered merchant ship which was supposed to sail from New York to Genoa, Italy, with a cargo of 1,701 barrels of alcohol. The captain was Benjamin Briggs, and his wife and small daughter were aboard as well. When they left port, everything seemed fine: a well-respected captain and crew, secure cargo, and a seaworthy ship.

But somewhere out in the Atlantic, something went wrong. And that’s all we really know. The Mary Celeste herself survived: she was found adrift and deserted on December 4, 1872, off the Portuguese  Azores Islands. The ship was undamaged except for some wear and tear from sailing unmanned for 9 days, according to the log discovered on board, in which the last entry was routine. The ship’s papers and instruments were gone, and so was the lifeboat, which appeared to have been tied to the ship, and then cut free. The food and personal possessions of the occupants were left behind.

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some ghostly writing prompts, such as:

The captains’ curse. The Mary Celeste actually lost three captains to premature death: the other two fell ill while on board. There’s also a theory that Captain Briggs might actually have died before the ship was abandoned, and without his good counsel, the crew were more likely to leave a sea-worthy ship. So you could write about a ship with a particular hatred for captains. Perhaps the ship itself was the killer, or it might have been cursed by someone with a hatred for authority, or malice toward the first captain to die, but the curse unfortunately kept going past him. In any case, the last captain of the Mary Celeste got some revenge: Capt. Gilman C. Parker purposely ran the ship aground in 1884 in an act of insurance fraud.

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[llamawrites]

Mari Celeste Tracy is a play on Mary Celeste, Gordon would definitely name his daughter after a ghost ship.

#llama thinks #thunderbirds 1965 #next generation #next gen oc