The Flying Dutchman

Many versions of this story. According to some, this story comes from the Netherlands, while the other is to claim that it is derived from the English dramatist The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel "The Phantom Ship" (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted to the story Netherlands "Vliegend Het Schip (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch clergyman AHC Römer. Other versions include the opera by Richard Wagner (1841) and "The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea" by Washington Irving (1855).

Based on several sources, Captain in the Dutch 17th century Bernard Fokke is an example of the ghost ship captain. Fokke gain notoriety from the Netherlands on perjalan to Java with the extraordinary speed and has suspected ties with the devil to increase speed. Based on several sources, with the captain is called Falkenburg Dutch version of the story. He called the "Van der Decken" (meaning off the deck | deck above) in Marryat's version and "Ramhout van Dam in Irving's version. Sources do not agree that the "Flying Dutchman" is the name of the ship or the name of the call to the captain.
According to many versions, the captain promised that he will not be back at the storm, but will continue efforts to search for Cape of Good Hope even until the day of Resurrection. According to some versions, the grisly crime has occurred, or the ship crew has been contracting by pest and disease outbreaks are not permitted to anchor in the harbor. Since then, the ships and awaknya always punished for sailing, never land. According to some versions, this occurs in the year 1641, the other the year 1680 or 1729.

Many of the notes of the Flying Dutchman story of the Christians The Wandering jew.
Terneuzen (Netherlands) referred to as the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was punished for the seas forever, has been told in the novel work of Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera.

Some witnesses penampakan The Flying Dutchman:

1823 Captain Oweb from the ship HMS Leven; twice to see ship blindly terombang a blank in the middle of ocean, one of which may be the Flying Dutchman.

1835 An English ship was to see The Flying Dutchman which direction to go faster, but after close to disappearing as such.

1879 Some of the crew had time to see the SS Petrogia ghost ship is.

1881 3 crew HMS Baccante in which there is a King George V view. The next day seornag crew who had seen the sudden death tiba2.

Visible Mulkenzenberg in 1939, making the view orang2 confused because tiba2 only old ships that disappeared as such.

There are reports from the 1941 Beach Glenclaim about an old ship into a reef. After the investigation there is no iota of ships in the surrounding fuselage.

Visible in 1942 by MHS Jubille ship near Cape Town, South Africa.


According to the story of a tale, The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that will never be another, but must be the "seven seas" forever. Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance, sometimes disinari with the ghost light.