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Several 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") sailed the seas from Holland to Java with incredible speed.
He is suspected of asking for help to achieve a speed demon earlier. But amid his voyage to the Cape of God Hope sudden bad weather, so the ship to roll. Then one of the crew asked 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 of my boat crew will be damned forever" Arrive -Arrived storm hit the ship so that they lose against nature.
And cursed forever with the kid captain of his ship it into the bodies of living and sailing across 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.
Other sources also mentioned the emergence of dangerous diseases among the crew 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 oceans forever, has been told in the novel by Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera.
Many witnesses who claimed to have seen this ghost ship. In 1939 the ship was visible in Mulkzenberg. In 1941 seklompok people at Glencairn beach to watch the sail boats that arrived - to disappear when will run against the rocks. Sightings The Flying Dutchman was again seen by the crew of Jubilee M.H.S military ship near Cape Town in August 1942.
In fact there is a record of the story of the voyage of Christopher Columbus, when the crew of the vessel stalled stranded Columbus viewed with screen expands. after the first crew died instantly viewed directly.
Myth lately also tells if a modern ship saw this ghost ship and a modern crew gave the signal, then the modern ship would sink / calamity.
For a sailor, an unexpected encounter with a ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman will bring danger to them and said, there is a way to circumvent the possibility bump into the ghost ship, ie with a pair of horseshoe on the masts of their ships as protection.
Over the centuries - 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 Pantom Ship (1837) is lifted from the experience to meet this sinister 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 a few footballers, 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 was nicknamed The Non-Flying Dutchman.
Some report sightings The Flysing Dutchman who had documented:
1823: Captain Oweb, HMS Leven tells been twice saw an empty boat tottering amid the ocean from a 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, was visited by an alien ship is touted as a ghost ship The Flying Dutchman, and then suddenly the foreign ship approached and seemed to want to hit the ship them, yet strangely before the two collide foreign ship then vanished.
1881: Three children HMS Bacchante including King George V had seen sebuat unmanned ships that sail their boats against the current. The next day, one than those found dead in a terrible state.
1879: Children of the SS Pretoria also claimed to have seen the ghost ship.
1939: ship is seen in Mulkzenberg, several people who witnessed surprised because the obsolete vessel suddenly disappeared
1941: Glencairn shore Several witnesses reported an obsolete vessel which hit rocks and fragmented, but after an investigation at the scene, there are no signs of the wreck.
1942: Four witnesses had seen an empty vessel into the waters of Table Bay then menghilang.Seorang employees have documented these findings in his diary.
1942: The appearance of The Flying Dutchman was again seen by the crew of Jubilee M.H.S military ship near Cape Town in August 1942
1959: The crew of the ship Straat Magelhaen back melaporakan see a mysterious ship adrift amid a sea of empty with telescope.
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