The correct answer was D - 7 November 1872

The brigantine Mary Celeste left New York on 7 November 1872, heading for Genoa, Italy. It was discovered on 4 December 1872, by the crew of the brigantine Dei Gratia, a ship adrift in the Atlantic near the Azores. 

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