The Enduring Mystery of the Mary Celeste

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 5 a.m.

On 7th November 1872 a ship set sail from New York...less than a month later the vessel was found deserted. The cargo was intact and there was plenty of food in the hold but the lifeboat was missing. The image of the ghost ship caught the imagination, and the term mary celeste or marie celeste came to mean ‘an unsolvable mystery’. Take a listen to this week's lesson with Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Belvoir.