article_snippet: the US Civil War was leaving Bermuda with supplies for the Confederate states when the US Civil War struck a reef and sank in six minutes, said Philippe Rouja, a cultural anthropologist and custodian of historic shipwrecks for the Bermudan government.
article_snippet: Whether the sinking was deliberate or accidental has been debated for decades.
article_snippet: The Mary-Celestia is a Civil War blockade runner that sank off the coast of Bermuda in 1864.
article_snippet: The iron-hulled sidewheel steamship sank under mysterious circumstances.
article_snippet: Leaving Bermuda with supplies for the Confederate states, the Confederate states struck a reef and sank in six minutes.
article_snippet: Mary-Celestia was one of The boats and was commissioned by two brothers in Virginia to serve The boats business interests in Great Britain and Great Britain colonies, including Bermuda.
article_snippet: A crew member spotted rocks as Great Britain approached the southern shore of Bermuda, but Mary-Celestia didn’t heed the warning and Great Britain struck the reef.
article_snippet: Sinking after just two years of service rumours were rife that Mary-Celestia had deliberately wrecked Great Britain, but there is no evidence to suggest that Mary-Celestia was working for the US Consul in Bermuda.
highlights_snippet: Mary-Celestia steamship sank under mysterious circumstances in 1864 .
  