Mary Celeste essays

Mary Celeste essays First theory F1 (Mr. Solly Flood, Attorney General at Gibraltar.) My own theory or guess is that the crew got at the alcohol (the cargo) and in the fury of drunkenness murdered the Master, whose name was Briggs, his wife and child and the chief ( first) mate; and that they did, some time between the 25 November and the 5 December, escape on board some vessel bound for some North or South American port or the West Indies. First, this is a more reliable theory because the writer was an attorney general. However, the theory is incorrect because on page 32 of the handout it states that the alcohol was the kind that not supposed to be drunk. Another reason why this is incorrect is because on page 32 of the handout also states that the ship was found on December 4th 1862. [They] ...escape on board some vessel bound for some North or South American port or the West Indies. This is a reasonable idea because this could explain why, in source D2, the Navigation equipment was missing. Suggesting that the crew had removed the Navigation equipment and decided to escape on the boat tied to the ship, which was missing (source B: A diagram showing the state of the boat when it was found, which mentioned that the boat was missing). This could also be right because it accounted for the red brown spots on deck and the blood on the captains sword written in source E1: ... |the captains| cabin a sword in its scabbard... it had not been affected by water but on drawing out the blade it appeared to me as if it had been smeared with blood and afterwards wiped. ...some read brown spots about a millimeter thick and 8 millimeters in diameter... were found on deck. This theory could have been suggested because in source E2 it states that some barrels of alcohol were completely empty. Although, the alcohol was not the kind to be drunk, this still does not explain why or how the crew g...