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For other uses, see Flying Dutchman (disambiguation). Flying Dutchman, according to folklore, is a ghost ship that can never go home, and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes seen to be glowing with ghostly light. It is said that if she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land or to people long since dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is reckoned by seafarers to be a portent of doom. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship. ...
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The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) (1895 - 1910), Cleveland Museum of Art Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 - March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. ...
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Origins
Versions of the story are numerous in nautical folklore and are related to earlier medieval legends such as that of Captain Falkenburg who was cursed to ply the North Sea until Judgment Day, playing at dice with the Devil for his own soul. The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...
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The first reference in print to the ship itself appears to be in Chapter VI of George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay (1795): George Barrington (May 14, 1755 - ?) was an Irishman with a curious history. ...
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I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions, but had never given much credit to the report; it seems that some years since a Dutch man of war was lost off the Cape of Good Hope, and every soul on board perished; her consort weathered the gale, and arrived soon after at the Cape. Having refitted, and returning to Europe, they were assailed by a violent tempest nearly in the same latitude. In the night watch some of the people saw, or imagined they saw, a vessel standing for them under a press of sail, as though she would run them down: one in particular affirmed it was the ship that had foundered in the former gale, and that it must certainly be her, or the apparition of her; but on its clearing up, the object, a dark thick cloud, disappeared. Nothing could do away the idea of this phenomenon on the minds of the sailors; and, on their relating the circumstances when they arrived in port, the story spread like wild-fire, and the supposed phantom was called the Flying Dutchman. From the Dutch the English seamen got the infatuation, and there are very few Indiamen, but what has some one on board, who pretends to have seen the apparition.[1] For other uses, see Cape of Good Hope (disambiguation). ...
According to some sources, the 17th century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke is the model for the captain of the ghost ship. Fokke was renowned for the uncanny speed of his trips from Holland to Java and was suspected of being in league with the devil to achieve this speed. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
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Bernard Fokke was a 17th century Dutch captain for the Dutch East India Company. ...
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However, the first version to appear in print seems to be that which featured in Blackwood's Magazine for May 1821. This puts the scene of the action as the Cape of Good Hope: the 'Flying Dutchman' is Jan the man from Holland. Blackwoods Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. ...
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She was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago. Her master’s name was Captain Hendrik van der Decken. He was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of the devil. For all that, never a sailor under him had reason to complain; though how it is on board with them nobody knows. The story is this: in doubling the Cape they were a long day trying to weather the Table Bay. However, the wind headed them, and went against them more and more, and Van der Decken walked the deck, swearing at the wind. Just after sunset a vessel spoke to him, asking him if he did not mean to go into the bay that night. Van der Decken replied: 'May I be eternally damned if I do, though I should beat about here till the day of judgment.' And to be sure, he never did go into that bay, for it is believed that he continues to beat about in these seas still, and will do so long enough. This vessel is never seen but with foul weather along with her.[2] For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ...
Cape Town, False Bay (top) and Table Bay (right) from space, February 1995. ...
There have been many reported sightings of the Flying Dutchman on the high seas in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of the most famous was by Prince George of Wales (later King George V of the United Kingdom). During his late adolescence, in 1880, along with his elder brother Prince Albert Victor of Wales (sons of the future King Edward VII), he was on a three-year-long voyage with their tutor Dalton aboard the 4000-tonne corvette HMS Bacchante. Off the coast of Australia, between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton records: George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...
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Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910. ...
"At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her, as did the quarterdeck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle; but on arriving there was no vestige nor any sign whatever of any material ship was to be seen either near or right away to the horizon, the night being clear and the sea calm. Thirteen persons altogether saw her...At 10.45 a.m. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms."[3]
Adaptations This story was adapted in the English melodrama The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel The Phantom Ship (1839) by Frederick Marryat. This in turn was later adapted as Het Vliegend Schip (The Flying Ship) by the Dutch clergyman A.H.C. Römer. Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ...
The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Edward Fitzball (1792 - 27th October 1873) was an English dramatist, whose real patronymic was Ball, was born at Burwell, Cambridgeshire. ...
The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of The Flying Dutchman and, in one chapter, features a Werewolf. ...
1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. ...
Another, not so well-known version, of this story is that the Captain and crew were struck down with bubonic plague. When the Captain tried to dock the ship they were turned away wherever they went - nobody would risk allowing a plague-ridden ship to dock. Their water and provisions soon ran out and, eventually, all on board The Flying Dutchman died. Their souls are doomed to sail the seven seas for all eternity. The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). ...
Richard Wagner's famous opera on the subject: The Flying Dutchman (1843) has a somewhat convoluted genesis. It appears to be adapted from an episode in Heinrich Heine's satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski (Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski) (1833) in which one of the characters attends a theatrical performance of The Flying Dutchman. This imaginary play appears to be a pastiche by Heine of Fitzball's play, which Heine may have seen whilst in London. However, unlike Fitzball's play, which has the traditional Cape of Good Hope location, in Heine's account of the imaginary play the action is transferred to the North Sea: off the coast of Scotland. This seems to be the reason that Wagner's play is also set in the North Sea, although this time off the Norwegian coast. Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as they were later called). ...
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. ...
Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. ...
Another adaptation was The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea by Washington Irving (1855). Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ...
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The captain of the Dutchman The Captain is called Van der Decken (meaning of the decks) in Marryat's version and Ramhout van Dam in Irving's version. Sources disagree on whether "Flying Dutchman" was the name of the ship, or a nickname for her captain.[citation needed]
According to most versions, the captain swore that he would not retreat in the face of a storm, but would continue his attempt to round the Cape of Good Hope even if it took until Judgment Day. According to other versions, some horrible crime took place on board, or the crew was infected with the plague and not allowed to sail into any port for this reason. Since then, the ship and its crew were doomed to sail forever, never putting in to shore. According to some versions, this happened in 1641, others give the date 1680 or 1729.[citation needed] For other uses, see Cape of Good Hope (disambiguation). ...
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The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). ...
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In Marryat's version Terneuzen in the Netherlands is described as the home of Captain Van der Decken. Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. ...
In Fitzball's play, the Captain is allowed to go to shore once every hundred years, in order to seek a woman to share his fate. In Wagner's opera, it is once every seven years.
Modern adaptations The Flying Dutchman is the official mascot of Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. Lebanon Valley College (also referred to as LVC, Lebanon Valley and The Valley) is a small, liberal arts higher education institution situated in the heart of Annville in Lebanon County, 40 minutes east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ...
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The 1951 MGM film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman starred Ava Gardner and James Mason. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 feature film directed by Albert Lewin starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, and featuring Marius Goring. ...
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Several episodes of the television anthology series The Twilight Zone, most notably "Death Ship", "The Arrival", and Judgment Night were adaptations of the Flying Dutchman legend. ANThology is the first major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19, 2001 in the UK. // Their first single, Smooth Criminal, was a cover of Michael Jacksons song Smooth Criminal, which started to bring popularity to the band. ...
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A January 14, 1965 episode of the radio drama Theater Five featured a similar tale set around a space station.
A 1976 episode of Land of the Lost, from its third season, is titled "The Flying Dutchman" and features the ship and its captain. Land of the Lost (1974–1976) is one in a variety of popular, uniquely produced childrens television series created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. ...
The 1991 book Flying Dutch by British author Tom Holt is a comedic/fantasy take on the story. Flying Dutch is the third humorous-fantasy novel by popular British author Tom Holt. ...
Tom Holt (born September 13, 1961) is an author of parodic mythopoeic fiction. ...
Another adaptation is Brian Jacques's 2001 children's fantasy novel, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. It has two sequels, called The Angel's Command and Voyage of Slaves. (James) Brian Jacques (born June 15, 1939) is an English author, best known for his Redwall series of novels, as well as the Tribes of Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. ...
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is the first novel in the Castaways series by Brian Jacques, published in 2001. ...
The Angels Command is a novel by Brian Jacques and the sequel to Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. ...
Voyage of Slaves is the third novel in Brian Jacques Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. ...
In 2006, the tale of the Flying Dutchman was adapted into the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, in which the ship is portrayed as having a crew of doomed humans slowly being transformed into sea life. According to this interpretation, the captain of the Dutchman is Davy Jones, who fell in love with the sea goddess Calypso. Calypso charged him with conveying the dead at sea to the afterlife. After the first 10 years of this task, his heart was broken when Calypso did not appear and so not to suffer, he removed it, placing it into a chest. After this, he abandoned his charge and turned into the Pirate of Pirates. After finding a sinking vessel, or sinking it himself, he would offer the dead or dying one hundred years on his ship, or death. Because of his treachery and ruthlessness, Calypso cursed the Dutchman and her crew. The Pirates of the Caribbean films are a trilogy of pirate adventure films directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. ...
The Flying Dutchman is a fictional ghost ship commanded by Davy Jones which appears in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest, and in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. ...
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Now hes left to pine on an island, wracked with grief (Odyssey V): Calypso and Odysseus, by Arnold Böcklin, 1883 Calypso (Greek: Καλυψώ, I will conceal, also transliterated as Kalypsó or KÄlypsÅ), was a naiad, daughter of Atlas who lived on the island of Gozo in Greek mythology. ...
In art and music - The Flying Dutchman has been captured in a painting by Albert Ryder in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and a painting by Howard Pyle, an artist famous for illustrations of pirates.
- The Japanese singer Hyde recorded a song called "The Cape of Storms", based on the tale. The song was featured as the main theme in the movie Kagen no Tsuki.
- Jethro Tull released a song called The Flying Dutchman, about the ship, on their 1979 album Stormwatch.
- Glory Bells Band also released a song called The Flying Dutchman on their album Dressed in Black.
- The Flying Dutchman appears as a recurring ghostly character in the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.
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External links - On the history and sightings of the Flying Dutchman
- Mainly about Wagner's possible sources
- Source of the legend of the Flying Dutchman
- Melodramatic Possessions: The Flying Dutchman, South Africa and the Imperial Stage ca. 1830
- The Phantom Ship by Marryat at Project Gutenberg
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