Whatever happened to the Mary Celeste?

Who encircled the globe in the 1870s

Abandoned off the Portuguese coast bereft

Of her captain, crew all lost to the sea

Her hatches asunder, her quarters a mess

November 25th the ship log’s final entry

Was she the victim of betrayal and theft?

Some look for answers in piracy

Other blame nature for getting her best

Waves, spouts, krakens are the top three

I think by lifeboat the panicked crew left

To escape a flood or flash fire tragedy

Curse or ghost, alien probe or tidal crest

Every clue blooms into another query

Whatever happened to the Mary Celeste?

Forever preserved in prose and mystery