Mary Celeste
"Mary Celeste" was not the first reported case of a ship being found strangely deserted on the high seas. Rupert Gould, a naval officer and investigator of maritime mysteries, lists other such occurrences between 1840 and 1855. Whatever the truth of these stories, it is the "Mary Celeste" that is remembered; the ship's name, or the misspelt "Marie Celeste", has become fixed in people's minds as synonymous with inexplicable desertion.