Sources

Where the facts come from.

Checked 15 November 2026. Each claim on the site points back to one of these records.

1. Royal Museums Greenwich, “The mystery of the Mary Celeste,” Andrew Choong Han Lin
2. John Austin, Surveyor of Shipping, affidavit, Gibraltar Vice-Admiralty Court, as transcribed from a photostat in Charles Edey Fay, The Mary Celeste, Peabody Museum, 1942
3. Dr J. Patron, “Supposed Blood-stains,” Gibraltar, 30 January 1873, as transcribed from the court papers in Fay, 1942
4. The New York Times, 26 February 1873, p. 2, reprinting the Boston Post, 24 February 1873
5. Charles Edey Fay, The Mary Celeste, Peabody Museum, 1942, common-errors chapter as transcribed at maryceleste.net/facts.htm
6. Arthur Conan Doyle, “J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement,” later collected in The Captain of the Polestar, 1884; public domain
7. Crew list as printed from the court papers in Fay, 1942, transcribed at maryceleste.net/crew.htm

Fay’s 1942 book is still in copyright as a published edition; this site uses short factual statements from the nineteenth-century affidavits he transcribed, and cites the transcription clearly. It does not reproduce the book.