Which detail from the text best supports the idea that some people believed the Mary Celeste had a troubled past? Deveau added, 'And where are the sextant, navigation book, and ship's register?'"

“Her captain, Robert McLellan, took ill and died on her very first voyage.”

“The lifeboat that should have been lying across the main hatch was missing.”

“Because of bad weather, she anchored about a mile 'down the harbor'—offshore.”