Origin.
According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never be anchored, but must navigate the "seven seas" forever. Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance, sometimes irradiated with a light beam dim. Many versions of this story. According to some sources, this legend came from the Netherlands, while others claim that it comes from a play England The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel "The Phantom Ship" (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted to Dutch story "Vliegend Het Schip" (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch pastor AHC Römer. Other versions include operas by Richard Wagner (1841) and "The Flying Dutchman on the Tappan Sea" by Washington Irving (1855).
Captain Bernard Fokke.
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 seas from Holland to Java with incredible speed. He is suspected of asking for help to reach a speed demon earlier. But amid his voyage to the Cape of Good 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 retreat and will continue through the storm to reach the destination city, or I and all the crew of my ship will be damned forever" Arrive -Arrived storm hit the ship so that they lost against nature. And cursed forever with the child's captain that his ship into the bodies of living and sailing on the seven seas forever. It is said that the ship was condemned to sail the seven oceans until the end of time. then the story was spread very rapidly throughout the world.Dangerous diseases.
Other sources also mentioned the emergence of dangerous diseases among crew members so that they are not allowed to dock at any port. Since then, the ship and its crew was sentenced 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 curse God and has been sentenced to sail the seas forever, has been told in the novel by Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship and Richard Wagner opera. Many witnesses who claimed to have seen this ghost ship. In 1939 the ship was visible in Mulkzenberg. In 1941 a group of people at Glencairn beach watching the sail boats that arrived - arrived vanished when going to run against a rock. Sightings The Flying Dutchman crew again seen by MHS Jubilee military ship near Cape Town in August 1942. In fact, there is a record of the story of Christopher Columbus voyage, Columbus crew at that time saw the ship stranded hang the screen expands. after the crew first saw immediately killed instantly.Term.
Flying Dutchman The term is also used to nickname several soccer athletes, especially the major players from the Netherlands. Ironically, the country veteran star Orange, Dennis Bergkamp precisely known as a phobia or fear to fly, so he nicknamed The Non-Flying Dutchman.Dutch Airlines, KLM also Naming Each and Every plane in Rear reading "The Flying Dutchman"
Sighting reports.
Some report sightings of The Flying Dutchman that had documented:
1823: Captain Oweb, tells the HMS Leven had twice seen an empty vessel tottering amid the ocean of distance, but in the blink of an eye the ship then disappeared.1835: It is reported that year, a vessel flagged British besieged by a storm amid the ocean, visited by an alien ship is touted as the Ship Ghost The Flying Dutchman, and then suddenly the foreign ship approached and seemed to want to hit the ship them, but strangely before the two collide foreign ship then vanished.
1881: Three HMS Bacchante children including King George V had seen an unmanned vessel that sailed their boats against the current. The next day, one than those found dead in a terrible state.
1879: Son ship SS Pretoria also claimed to have seen the ghost ship.
1939: The ship is seen in Mulkzenberg, several people who witnessed surprised because the old ship suddenly disappeared
1941: Glencairn shore Several witnesses reported an obsolete vessel which hit rocks and split, but after an investigation at the scene, there are no signs of the wreck.
1942: Four witnesses had seen an empty vessel to enter the waters of Table Bay and then disappeared. An employee has documented these findings in his diary.
1942: The appearance of The Flying Dutchman crew again seen by MHS Jubilee military ship near Cape Town in August 1942
1959: The crew of the ship Straat Magelhaen back reported seeing a mysterious ship adrift amid a sea of empty with telescope. Thank you for reading this article.
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