The Record and the Stories

A 6-page companion that keeps the 1873 affidavit, the Gibraltar hearing, and later fiction such as Conan Doyle’s “J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement” in their proper places, including the later “Marie Celeste” spelling.

What’s inside:

- What the boarding party recorded

- The Gibraltar hearing

- Stories that came later

- The “Marie Celeste” spelling

- What remains open

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 6 (A4) / 6 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.

Every fact is written in our own words and checked on 15 November 2026 against Royal Museums Greenwich (Andrew Choong Han Lin), the 30 January 1873 affidavit of mate Oliver Deveau and the report of Dr J. Patron via Charles Edey Fay (1942), the New York Times of 26 February 1873 and the Boston Post of 24 February 1873, and Fay’s list of common errors; Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1884 story is treated as fiction. The sources are listed on the credits page.

Photographs are free-licensed from Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0 or CC BY only), resized with no other changes. CC BY-SA photographs used on the website are not included in this pack. Where labelled diagrams appear, they are simplified teaching diagrams and are not to scale.

This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Royal Museums Greenwich, the Government of Gibraltar, the Peabody Essex Museum, the New York Times, or the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle. The 1861 painting of Amazon is not a photograph of the 1872 derelict; the 1879 Gibraltar plate is a book engraving; some items in the Peabody Essex Museum photograph of Briggs’s lap desk are later reproductions.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

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This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.

Price: $3.99 USD.