The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder

According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never go home, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. If she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land, to people long since dead. The sight of this phantom ship is reckoned by seafarers to be a portent of doom. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (778x644, 111 KB)[edit] Summary The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (778x644, 111 KB)[edit] Summary The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder. ... 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. ... The Flying Dutchman can refer to: The Flying Dutchman - a legendary ghost ship The Flying Dutchman (opera) - the English name of an 1843 opera by Richard Wagner called Der fliegende Holländer Flying Dutchman (dinghy) is a class of sailboat. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In modern English, the term ghost ship has come to denote at least one of three separate (though occasionally overlapping) definitions, all of which involving, in one respect or other, unexplained circumstances. ... The traditional Seven Seas Medieval European and Arabic literature often spoke of the Seven Seas. ...

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. This article or section should be merged with End times and Last judgment The Last Judgement - Tympanum sculpture at the Abbey Church of Ste-Foy, Conques-en-Rouergue, France In Christian eschatology, the Last Judgement is the ethical-judicial trial, judgement, and punishment/reward of individual humans (assignment to heaven...

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. ... Captain is a rank or title with various meanings. ... Bernard Fokke was a 17th century Dutch captain for the Dutch East India Company. ... Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands with a population of 6. ... Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Satan frozen at the center of Cocytus, the ninth circle of Hell in Dantes Inferno. ...

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 a dead man on a ship. Blackwoods Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. ... The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point. ...

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. [1] Nickname: Motto: Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig (Valiant, Determined, Compassionate) Location of Amsterdam Coordinates: , Country Netherlands Province North Holland Government  - Mayor Job Cohen (PvdA)  - Aldermen Lodewijk Asscher Hennah Buyne Carolien Gehrels Tjeerd Herrema Maarten van Poelgeest Marijke Vos  - Secretary Erik Gerritsen Area [1][2]  - City 219 km²  (84. ... Cape Town, False Bay (top) and Table Bay (right) from space, February 1995. ...

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 run 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. ...

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 he later came to call them). ... The Flying Dutchman (German title: Der fliegende Holländer) is an opera, 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 (born Chaim Harry 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. ... Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

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.

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. The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point. ... This article or section should be merged with End times and Last judgment The Last Judgement - Tympanum sculpture at the Abbey Church of Ste-Foy, Conques-en-Rouergue, France In Christian eschatology, the Last Judgement is the ethical-judicial trial, judgement, and punishment/reward of individual humans (assignment to heaven... The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. ... Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ... Events First Portuguese governor was appointed to Macau The Swedish city Karlskrona was founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocated there. ... Events July 30 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded. ...

Many have noted the resemblance of the Flying Dutchman legend to the Christian folk tale of the Wandering Jew. The Wandering Jew by Gustave Doré. For other uses, see Wandering Jew (disambiguation). ...

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.

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, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King of the Commonwealth Realms, and the Emperor of India. ...

"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." (from King George V, a biography by Kenneth Rose, 1988)

Another adaptation is Brian Jacques's Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. It has been modified to suit children and is a fantasy novel. It uses the Flying Dutchman as a basis for the story. It has a sequel called The Angel's Command. Brian Jacques (James) Brian Jacques (born June 15, 1939) is an English author, best known for his Redwall series of fantasy books, 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. ...

On SpongeBob Squarepants, there is a recurring ghost character named The Flying Dutchman voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray, who haunts the seven seas almost like Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The Flying Dutchman is a fictional character from the Nickelodeon television animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. ... Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian and actor from Chicago, Illinois. ... For other uses, see Davy Jones Locker. ... This article contains a trivia section. ...

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 their 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. This article contains a trivia section. ... 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. ... For other uses, see Davy Jones Locker. ... Now hes left to pine on an island, wracked with grief (Odyssey V): Calypso and Odysseus, by Arnold Böcklin, 1883 In Greek mythology Calypso (Greek: Καλυψώ, I will conceal, also transliterated as Kalypsó or Kālypsō), was a naiad, daughter of Atlas who lived on the island of Malta. ...

Carl Barks wrote an Uncle Scrooge comics story in which Scrooge McDuck and his nephews search for the Flying Dutchman, hearing of a gold supply on it. When they see a ghostly image of the ship, coincidence turns fate against them, and their compass and wheel break, leaving them stranded. Fearing it is the Dutchman's curse, they sail on without choice. Eventually they find the Flying Dutchman embedded in an iceberg: the ghostly image was a reflection caused by phosphorus. Using items from the Flying Dutchman itself, they take the gold and return home. Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). ... Uncle Scrooge #21 cover. ... Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Scottish character created by Carl Barks who first appeared in Dell Comics Four Color Comics #178 Christmas on Bear Mountain in December 1947. ...

Cultural allusions

• In Xena: Warrior Princess, the second-season episode "The Lost Mariner" was based partly on the Flying Dutchman legend and the Wagner opera.
• The Flying Dutchman is 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 Flying Dutchman is the ship of Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as well as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
• The song "Edge of the World", on the Fairport Convention album "Sense of Occasion", is based on the Dutchman legend and contains an instrumental titled "The Flying Dutchman".

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Other

• The Flying Dutchman is also the mascot of several schools, including Hope College, The Collegiate School, Lebanon Valley College, and formerly Hofstra University as well as Tappan Zee High School.
• "The Flying Dutchman" is a slogan written on planes of KLM and the former name of the Frequent Flyer Program of the same airline. It was also used as an advertising campaign in the 1930s together with the slogan: "From legend to reality."

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See also

• Wandering Jew
• Phantom vehicle
• Ghost ship
• Terneuzen
• El Caleuche
• Mary Celeste
• Jian Seng
• High Aim 6
• MV Joyita
• Chasse-galerie
• Davy Jones
• Black Pearl

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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