Mary Celeste:"The Ghost Ship Unsolved mystery"

   Mary Celeste was launched in Nova Scotia in 1860.Her original name was Amazon.She was 105 ft overall displacing 280 tons ans listed as a half of violence ruled out piracy or foul play,but no conclusionss as to the fate of the mortals aboard was forthcoming.Newspapers in England and america took little passing notice of the incident,and it soon  faded from the public interest as the loss of the small ship at sea was not uncommon in those days.The popular mystery of the Mary Celeste did not begin untill 1884 when Arthur Conan Doyle(the future author of the Sherlock Homes series) writing under a pseudonym published a story about a derelict ship which he called "Marie Celeste",It was titled as "J.Habakuk Jepson's Statement.This tale  recounted  some of the actual events of the Mary Celeste with considerable added fictional and provocative detail which stirred up contoversy and captured the public interest.Since then and to this day,no two versions of the story are the same. 

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