Dr. Quest and his team find the sunken remains of the Mary Celeste, possibly the most famous of all ghost ships, and one character tells the story of how the crew disappeared. However, the Mary Celeste did not sink: she was found adrift by another ship on December and salvaged. She completed several trips before running aground near Haiti, almost 15 years after the disappearance of her original crew.
Captain Briggs states that the Mary Celeste was carrying a cargo of rum barrels. In reality, the cargo was industrial alcohol (whose flame-less, self-extinguishing fire is one of the theories about her disappearance).