If they were gonna leave the ship and take all their stuff with them, I am upset they didn't take the cat with them!
The mystery is why the crew would abandon a perfectly seaworthy ship. If the ship had been damaged to point of potentially sinking, then abandoning would not be surprising.I don’t understand why this is a mystery. They obviously abandoned ship since the life boats were missing. The crew probably went their separate ways if they ever made shore.
That is a good theory. Look at our cruise ships and even our military ships during this pandemic. It spread like wildfire.The mystery is why the crew would abandon a perfectly seaworthy ship. If the ship had been damaged to point of potentially sinking, then abandoning would not be surprising.
One theory I heard was the crew might have abandoned ship due to a member of the crew having contracted a deadly disease. This occurred near the end of the Spanish Flu epidemic, so maybe that was it.