mary celeste

[Raymond Lever]

hello all new here looking for a model of the mary celeste been looking for 20 years and still no luck any help would be great thanks

[Papa]

I’ve looked too, since I discovered a distant cousin who owned her some time after she found floating with no crew. There doesn’t even seem to be a decent set of plans for scratch building. 

[Shotlocker]

Raymond & ragove,

 

There actually is a kit of the Mary Celeste, made by Steingraeber, a company that I'm fairly certain is no longer in business. I bought the kit at a hobby shop

in Denver, Colorado, in 1974 (I was employed there at the time) and have worked on it on and off between moves ever since. Dang thing is nearly complete now.

Anyway, here are a couple photos of the model and kit box. The instructions that came with the kit are terrible so I had to do a lot of research and I think the result

on the build is about 25% actual and the rest artistic license, based on similar type ships that I've seen on this site. I know a lot of what I did is entirely not how she

actually was.

 

Ragove, that's way cool about your distant cousin owning that ship! Do you have any more info on it, such as a photograph or two?

[Raymond Lever]

thank you for your reply 

[Shotlocker]

I can post photos of the plans if you're interested...as soon as I can find them. They're on one sheet, printed both sides. Not sure where I hid them during this last move.

[stm]

My understanding is that no actual plans, drawings, description, or pictures exist for the Mary Celest. Any models, photos, or drawings out there are merely conjecture and represent a typical brigantine of the period.

[Raymond Lever]

i would love the plans if possible thanks

[Shotlocker]

Here is a photograph that I found on the net somewhere that is purportedly of the ship and a painting, done in 1861 after her launch when she was known as the Amazon. 

Not much else out there except her fascinating history.

[Raymond Lever]

hi there thank you so much i can blow this up and frame it 

[Papa]

 

“Ragove, that's way cool about your distant cousin owning that ship! Do you have any more info on it, such as a photograph or two?“
 

no photos I’m afraid. I read a book about the ship and it mention her owners near the end of her life. One was a Captain Gove (I don’t recall the first name now). There was enough info to find him in “The History and Genealogy of the Family of Gove” an extensive book on our family.  Turns out I’m also a very distant cousin of Mark Twain, we are both descendants of one Edward Gove who came to Massachusetts in the 1640s. Edward Gove was also a very interesting character. Google his name.

[Shotlocker]

Raymond, you're very welcome indeed.

 

Ragove, I read about Edward Gove and yup, an interesting character - roundabout way to get rid of a governor but he eventually succeeded! Thanks for that bit of history.

My ancestors arrived in New Jersey in 1650 and gradually migrated west, all the way to western Nebraska. Somewhere along the way we became related to Daniel Boone's

sister Sarah. Now, it seems, I've migrated most of the way back again!

 

More info on the Mary Celeste:

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/1336765/Wreck-hunters-find-remains-of-Mary-Celeste.html

[smokeysal]

My son also have been looking for the model of the Mary celest, tried air fix, revel etc. Still no luck 

[Papa]

I haven't looked at this thread for a couple years. 😐

To open the link above one needs to sign up for the Telegraph.  I guess the paper needs to make a living.

Fascinating story about the Mary Celeste; we may never know what happened.