Red oak is known to be a more porous wood and therefore more likely to leak. As for that homicidal sailor played by Lugosi in The Mystery of the Mary Celeste, he may have been drawn from two ...

The ship ‘Mary Celeste’ was discovered drifting in the ... These barrels were made of porous red oak, which might have allowed alcohol vapors to gradually escape until there was a small ...

A: She was towed to New York in 1865, totally re-built with a new keel of white oak and named the Mary Celeste. Q: And then? A: Seven years later she set sail from New York to Genoa, Italy ...

Red oak is known to be a more porous wood and therefore more likely to leak. As for that homicidal sailor played by Lugosi in The Mystery of the Mary Celeste, he may have been drawn from two ...