What year was the ship 'Marie Celeste' found abandoned?
Mary Celeste vessel's hull. Postage stamps commemorating the incident have been issued by Gibraltar (twice) and by the Maldives (twice, once with the name of the ship misspelt as "Marie Celeste"). Mary Celeste Mary Celeste (; often misreported as "Marie Celeste") was an American merchant brigantine, discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition, under partial sail, and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November
Mary Celeste south of the actual location. Among many inaccuracies, the first mate was "a man named Briggs," and there were live chickens on board. The most influential retelling, which according to many commentators ensured that the "Mary Celeste" affair would never be forgotten, was a story in the January 1884 issue of the "Cornhill Magazine". This was an early work of Arthur Conan Doyle, then a 25-year-old ship's surgeon. Doyle's story, titled "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement", did not adhere to the facts. He renamed the ship "Marie Celeste", the captain's name was J. W. Tibbs, the fatal voyage took place in