History of The Flying Dutchman

Many versions of this story. According to some, this story 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 into a story Netherlands' 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).

According to several sources, the Dutch captain Bernard Fokke the 17th century is an example of the ghost ship's captain. Fokke gain notoriety on the journey from Holland to Java with incredible speed and are suspected of having ties to the devil to increase speed. According to several sources, the captain is called Falkenburg in the Dutch version of the story. He was called the "Van der Decken" (meaning off the deck | Above Deck) 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 nickname for the captain.

According to many versions, the captain promised that he will not back down in a storm, but will continue its efforts to find the Cape of Good Hope though until doomsday. According to some versions, a terrible crime has occurred, or the crew has been infected by the plague and not allowed to dock across the harbor. Since then, the ship and its crew doomed to always sail, never kedarat. According to some versions, this happened in 1641, the others guess in 1680 or 1729.

Many note the similarities of the Flying Dutchman with the Christian story of 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 condemned to sail the seas forever, has been told in a novel by Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera.

Some witness sightings of The Flying Dutchman:

1823 Captain of the ship HMS Leven Oweb; twice saw an empty vessel that floated down in the middle of the ocean, one of which may be the Flying Dutchman.

1835 A British ship The Flying Dutchman saw a speeding toward him but after close just disappear.

1879 Some of the crew of the SS Petrogia saw the ghost ship.

1881 three crew members of HMS Baccante which houses King George V saw. The next day saw the crew seornag tiba2 died suddenly.

Seen in Mulkenzenberg 1939, making orang2 see tiba2 just confused because the old boat just disappeared.

1941 There are reports from Glenclaim beach about an old ship that hit a reef. After the investigation is not an iota of wrecks in the vicinity.

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

According to the fairy tale, 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 afar, sometimes illuminated with ghostly light.