Locating The Mary Celeste

l writes "Ever wondered what happened to the infamous Mary Celeste? Unfortunately they don't know what happened *on* it, just what happened *to* it (see also the BBC News story). Possibly the earliest case of insurance fraud?"

Mary Celeste and the Marie Celeste (fiction)...

[tz]

From Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, The, ISBN 0-06-012475-X
Kusche, Lawrence David.
P. 31:

Chapter 5, December 1872 Mary Celeste.
...
So many stories have been told about the famous derelict in the century since it was fond that it is almost impossible to determine what is fact and what is fiction.

P. 35.

Fiction writers have made good use of the incident, beginning wiht a young, unknown author named Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote what was a the time an anonymous article in the January 1884 issue of The Cornhill Magazine ... he named his fictional ship the "Marie Celeste"...

now if only...

[hamburger lady]

i could find that Mama Celeste pizza i had in the freezer, i'd be set.

stupid roomates.

First case of insurance fraud?

[reverius]

Somehow I doubt that's the first case of insurance fraud.

Like the (modified) saying goes: there's been insurance fraud as long as there's been insurance.

Unless insurance was an extremely new thing at the time of this claim...

Cargo of raw alcohol

[mordorian]

Well the mystery should be pretty easy to figure out. They all got stupid on the cargo and decided to go swimming.