Ghost Ship-History On The Flying Dutchman

Legend The Flying Dutchman

According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never be anchored, but had to wade through the "seven seas" forever. Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance, sometimes illuminated by spotlights dim light. Many versions of this story. According to some sources, this legend came from the Netherlands, while the other was to claim that it came from England play The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel "The Phantom Ship" (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted to Story Dutch "Het Vliegend SCHIP" (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch priest AHC Römer. Other versions include the opera by Richard Wagner (1841) and "The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea" by Washington Irving (1855).

Some reliable sources said that in the 17th century a Dutch captain named Bernard Fokke (another version called the captain "Ramhout Van Dam" or "Van der Decken") across the sea from Holland to Java with incredible speed.
He was suspected asking for help to reach the speed demon said. But amid the voyage to Cape of God Hope sudden bad weather, so the shaky ship. Then a crew requested that the cruise stopped.

But the captain did not want to, then he said "I swear I will not back down and will continue through the storm to reach the destination city, or I and all my boat crew will be cursed forever," a sudden storm hit the ship so that they lose against nature.

And cursed forever with the captain of the ship was a child remains alive and sail the seven seas for eternity. That said, the ship was condemned to sail the seven oceans until the end of time. then the story was spread very rapidly throughout the world.

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Other sources also mentioned the emergence of malignancies among the crew that they are not allowed to dock anywhere dipelabuhan. Since then, the ship and its crew doomed to always sail, never docked / pull. According to some versions, this happened in 1641, the others guess in 1680 or 1729.

Terneuzen (Netherlands) referred to as the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, has been told in a novel by Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera.

Many witnesses who claimed to have seen this ghost ship. In 1939 the ship was seen in Mulkzenberg. In 1941 Glencairn seklompok people on the beach watching the sail boats arrive - got lost at the time would run against the rocks. Sightings of The Flying Dutchman was again seen by the crew of a military ship Jubilee MHS near Cape Town in August 1942.

There is even an account of Christopher Columbus voyage, while Columbus's crew saw the boat floating hang with the screen expands. after the first crew died instantly see straight.
 
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Myth lately also tells if a modern ship saw a ghost ship and a modern crew signaled, the modern ship will sink / woe.
For a sailor, an unexpected encounter with a ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman will bring harm to them and said, there is a way to circumvent the possibility of passing the ghost ship, namely by putting horseshoes on their ship yardarm as protection.
Over the centuries - centuries, the legend of The Flying Dutchman is an inspiration of the poet and novelist. Edward Fitzball since 1826 has written a novel The Pantom Ship (1837) were removed from the experience of meeting with this spooky vessel. Many famous poets such as Washington Irving and Sir Walter Scott are also interested in lifting legend.
Flying Dutchman The term is also used to nickname a few footballers, especially the leading players from the Netherlands. Ironically, the veteran country star Orange, Dennis Bergkamp precisely known as a phobia or a fear of flying, so he called The Non-Flying Dutchman.

History The Flying Dutchman


Some Sightings Reports The Flysing Dutchman who had documented:

1823: Captain Oweb, HMS Leven tells has twice seen an empty vessel tossed blindly amid the ocean from a distance, but in a moment the ship then disappeared.
1835: Narrated in that year, a British-flagged ship besieged by a storm in the middle of the ocean, was visited by an alien ship that is touted as the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman, and then suddenly a foreign vessel approached and seemed to want to hit the ship them, but strangely before the two foreign ships collide then vanished.
1881: Three children aboard HMS Bacchante including King George V had seen sebuat unmanned ships that sail their boats against the current. The next day, they encountered one rather than die in a terrible state.
1879: Son of the SS Pretoria also claimed to have seen the ghost ship.
1939: This looks at Mulkzenberg ship, several people who witnessed the battered ship kerana surprised suddenly disappeared
1941: Glencairn shore Witnesses reported an obsolete ship that hit rocks and fragmented, but after an investigation at the scene, there was no sign of the wreck.
1942: Four witnesses had seen an empty vessel into the waters of Table Bay and then menghilang.Seorang employee has documented these findings in his diary.
1942: Sightings The Flying Dutchman was again seen by the crew of a military ship Jubilee MHS near Cape Town in August 1942
1959: The crew of the ship Straat Magelhaen back melaporakan saw a mysterious ship adrift amid a sea of ​​empty telescope.

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