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 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 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.
Another source also causes dangerous diseases among crew members so that they are not allowed to dock in ports. 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, this time Columbus saw the ship crew stranded hang the screen expands. after the crew first saw immediately killed instantly.
Myth lately also tells if a modern ship saw this ghost ship and the crew of modern signaling, the modern ship would sink / wretched.
For a sailor, the unexpected encounter with the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman will bring danger to them and said, there is a way to circumvent the possibility of cross paths with the ghost ship, ie with a pair of horseshoe mast ship them as protection.
Over the centuries -, the legend of The Flying Dutchman became the source of inspiration of the writers and novelists. Since 1826 Edward Fitzball has written the novel The Phantom Ship (1837) is lifted from the experience meet with this spooky ship. Many famous poets such as Washington Irving and Sir Walter Scott also interested in raising this legend.
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 of flying, so he nicknamed The Non-Flying Dutchman.
SSome 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: 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 disappear .a employees have 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 a telescope.
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