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Benjamin Briggs

1835 - 1872

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Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced American seaman and master mariner. He was the captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal on December 4, 1872. The lifeboat was missing, yet the Mary Celeste was still under sail. Briggs, his wife Sarah and their two-year-old daughter Sophia Matilda were never found and were presumed lost, along with the crew of Mary Celeste. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Briggs is the 1,735th most popular military personnel (down from 1,556th in 2019), the 6,816th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,796th in 2019) and the 110th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Benjamin Briggs ranks 1,735 out of 2,058. Before him are Dragan Vasiljković, Gérard Leman, Ruben Lagus, Nazım Pasha, Tom Phillips, and James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan. After him are Reinhard Hardegen, Suheil al-Hassan, Alfred Keller, Philotas, Joseph Hooker, and Kiichiro Higuchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Benjamin Briggs ranks 68. Before him are Alexander Potebnja, Eduardo Pondal, Justo Rufino Barrios, Hashimoto Gahō, Désirée Artôt, and Ramón Barros Luco. After him are Tommaso Salvadori, Archibald Geikie, Kārlis Baumanis, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Osbert Salvin, and Alexander Litovchenko. Among people deceased in 1872, Benjamin Briggs ranks 59. Before him are Franz Xaver Fieber, Michele Carafa, Hugo von Mohl, Andrej Sládkovič, William Davies Evans, and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. After him are Nikolaos Mantzaros, Bedros Tourian, Frederik Kaiser, John Frederick Kensett, Nikolay Milyutin, and Robert Wight.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 6,818 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Livingston (1764), Frank Havens (1924), Sue Grafton (1940), Bisher Al-Khasawneh (1969), Eugene Garfield (1925), and Ivan Brown (1908). After him are Ken Jeong (1969), Ford Konno (1933), Frances Spence (1922), Alexis Herman (1947), George Eads (1967), and Janet Margolin (1943).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 110. Before him are J. Lawton Collins (1896), Eddie Slovik (1920), Braxton Bragg (1817), Frederick C. Weyand (1916), Irvin McDowell (1818), and James Jesus Angleton (1917). After him are Joseph Hooker (1814), William Guarnere (1923), Henry Gunther (1895), Lewis Powell (1844), James Van Fleet (1892), and George Pickett (1825).

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