How respectable were Captain Briggs and Captain Morehouse on 'Mary Celeste'?

Answer 1

Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs, as a member of North America's hard-working, honest, sea-based east coast sailing community families, was especially respectable regarding Mary Celeste. He was known for devotion to family and friends, fair treatment of crew and timely unloading of cargo. It would seem that Captain David Reed Morehouse of Dei Gratia enjoyed a similar reputation although less is known of him other than that after his death his wife revealed that the two captains had had dinner together the night before Mary Celeste sailed and that her husband thought that peril had prompted the Mary Celeste 10 of captain with daughter and wife, three officers and four seamen to abandon ship and drown in an overloaded lifeboat.