The ship's only lifeboat was missing, and one of its two pumps had been disassembled. Belowdecks, the ship's charts had been tossed about, and the crewmen's belongings were still in their quarters. Morehouse sent a boarding party to the ship. David Morehouse was taken aback to discover that the unguided vessel was the Mary Celeste, which had left New York City eight days before him and should have already arrived in Genoa, Italy. The British brig Dei Gratia was about 400 miles east of the Azores on December 5, 1872, when crew members spotted a ship adrift in the choppy seas. Cumberland County Museum and Archives, Amherst, Nova Scotia Canada
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