Six Months of Food for Nobody

Name: Six Months of Food for Nobody
Genre: Documentary

The objects left aboard make a desperate evacuation seem increasingly difficult to explain.

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The Mary Celeste was found adrift with its lifeboat missing.
All 10 people aboard disappeared, never seen or heard from.
Captain Briggs's wife Sarah's Nov. 7, 1872, letter was all aboard's last word.
The brigantine left New York City for Genoa November 7th, 1872, with 10 people.
Captain Briggs had brought his wife Sarah and their two-year-old daughter Sophia.
Even the ship's cat was tied below, so it could not run away.
When boarded, one of the Mary Celeste's two pumps was disassembled.
3.5 feet of water sloshed through the ship's bottom when boarded.
Yet the ship still carried food and water for roughly six months.
The crew's clothing stayed dry, and some razors were free from rust.
Intact: small bottle of sewing oil, thimble, reel, spare glass, books, harmonium.
A home can vanish while its smallest objects keep their places.
Sarah called their quarters aboard the Mary Celeste our little home.
Mary Celeste had 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol. Nine barrels were empty, but the cargo was largely intact.
Investigators found well-stowed, sound barrels, one started.

Even the Mary Celeste's enormous cargo of industrial alcohol was still intact.

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