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|Ship country=Canada
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|Ship name=''Dei Gratia''
|Ship owner=George F. Miller, Bear River, Nova Scotia
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|Ship laid down=1871
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|Ship registry=Digby, Nova Scotia, Official No. 69014
|Ship fate=Wrecked at Dale, Pembrokeshire, 27 December 1907
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'''''Dei Gratia''''' was a Canadian [[Engineering:Brigantine|brigantine]] built in Bear River, Nova Scotia in 1871. The brigantine was named after the [[Social:Latin|Latin]] phrase for "[[Religion:By the Grace of God|By the Grace of God]]". She became famous in 1872 when, under the command of David Reed Morehouse, she discovered the ghost ship {{ship||Mary Celeste}} without any crew near the Azores. They were {{convert|400|mi}} east of the Azores on 5 December 1872. Morehouse and his crew took the derelict ''Mary Celeste'' to [[Place:Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] and claimed the brigantine as salvage. They were at first subjected to suspicion by Gibraltar's Attorney General, but the Vice Admiralty Court later approved their salvage prize and commended the crew for their resourcefulness and courage. The hefty court expenses of the extensive probe reduced the salvage compensation, which was originally set at roughly $8,300. Only a sixth of the money was really paid.{{fact|date=January 2024}}

''Dei Gratia'' was sold to Irish owners in 1881 and wrecked at Black Rock, Dale, Pembrokeshire after breaking her moorings in a storm on 27 December 1907.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} Her original ship portrait is preserved at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.{{fact|date=January 2024}}

== References ==
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* Stanley T. Spicer, ''The Saga of the Mary Celeste'', (Halifax: Nimbus Press, 1993), p.&nbsp;30, 42–43.
* Daniel Cohen, "Curses, Hexes, & Spells", (J. B. Lippincoti Company, 1974)

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110706164920/http://www.atlantictallships.ca/gallery.php?action=display&OutputType=Ships&ID=348&lang=e  Tall Ships of Atlantic Canada – Registry Information]
* [http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/SEARCH/BASIS/vessel/public/vessel/DDW?W%3DNAME+%3D+%27Dei+Gratia%27+ORDER+BY+NAME/Ascend%26M%3D1%26K%3D12730%26R%3DY%26U%3D1 Parks Canada Ship Information Database – Registry Information]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}


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