By Irene Spezzamonte
On Nov. 7, 1872, the merchant ship Mary Celeste left from Staten Island for Genoa, Italy. The ship -- and the 1,701 barrels of alcohol for fortifying wine it carried -- would never make it to its destination.
And so the mystery began. The ship was found on Dec. 4 of that year by sailor David Morehouse at the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal located in the mid-Atlantic.
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