66-560: The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship. Flying Dutchman may also refer to: Flying Dutchman The Flying Dutchman ( Dutch : De Vliegende Hollander ) is a legendary ghost ship , allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and of Dutch maritime power . The oldest known extant version of
132-467: A 1959 comic book story where Uncle Scrooge , Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie meet The Flying Dutchman . Barks ultimately explains the "flying" ship as an optical illusion. Journey Into Mystery #56 (cover date January 1960) includes the story "I Spent a Night in the Haunted Lighthouse" (Author unknown; drawn by Joe Sinnott), in which a tourist stranded in an abandoned lighthouse during
198-544: 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
264-553: A captain named Willem van der Decken ( nl ). Rokeby (poem) Rokeby (1813) is a narrative poem in six cantos with voluminous antiquarian notes by Walter Scott . It is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War . The first hint of Rokeby is found in a letter of 11 January 1811 from Scott to Lady Abercorn in which he says that although he is not currently engaged on a new poem he has 'sometimes thought of laying
330-426: A distance they could not see it. There were certain conditions of the atmosphere, he said, when the sun's rays could form a perfect picture in the air of objects on the earth, like the images one sees in glass or water, but they were not generally upright, as in the case of this ship, but reversed—turned bottom upwards. This appearance in the air is called a mirage. He told a sailor to go up to the foretop and look beyond
396-490: A failure. He himself, while agreeing that it fell below the standard of vintage Scott, thought it worth re-reading. Over a hundred musical adaptations or settings of lines from Rokeby are known. These include several songs and glees by John Clarke Whitfield , a song by William Hawes , an opera called Rokeby Castle by William Reeve , and a projected opera by Glinka from which only one song survives. The actor-manager William Macready wrote, produced and starred in
462-455: A nighttime storm sees a ghostly ship and pirates. The following day, he finds a life preserver from The Flying Dutchman . Silver Surfer #8–9 (cover date September/October 1969), art by John Buscema and Dan Adkins, with dialogue and editing by Stan Lee, features a retelling of The Flying Dutchman legend. Here, it is the captain of the doomed ship (named Joost van Straaten ) who gets the "Flying Dutchman" name, rather than his boat. The story
528-567: A nuclear war. British author Brian Jacques wrote a trilogy of fantasy/young adult novels concerning two reluctant members of the Dutchman ' s crew, a young boy and his dog, whom an angel charges to help those in need. The first novel was titled Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (2001); the second was titled The Angel's Command (2003), and the third was titled Voyage of Slaves (2006). The comic fantasy Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
594-494: A pilot to conduct her and was lost and that ever since in very bad weather her vision appears. The next literary reference appears in Chapter VI of A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) (also known as A Voyage to New South Wales ), attributed to George Barrington (1755–1804): I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions and doom, but had never given much credit to the report; it seems that some years since
660-557: A poem titled The Flying Dutchman (1867). It was first published in The Wild Goose , a handwritten newspaper produced by Fenian convicts being transported to Western Australia . Dutch poet J. Slauerhoff published a number of related poems, particularly in his 1928 volume Eldorado . Ward Moore 's 1951 story Flying Dutchman used the myth as a metaphor for an automated bomber which continues to fly over an Earth where humanity long since totally destroyed itself and all life in
726-683: A ship just off the horizon appear hoisted in the air. The 1797–98 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , contains a similar account of a ghost ship, which may have been influenced by the tale of the Flying Dutchman . One of the first Flying Dutchman short stories was titled Vanderdecken's Message Home; or, the Tenacity of Natural Affection and was published in Blackwood's during 1821. John Boyle O'Reilly wrote
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#1732847504983792-399: A stage version of Rokeby in 1814. Another adaptation by George John Bennett , a five-act play called Retribution, or Love's Trials , was produced at Sadler's Wells in 1850. The artist J. M. W. Turner produced a watercolour of the river Greta at Rokeby in 1822, which had been commissioned from him as an illustration to Scott's poem. The unincorporated area of Rokeby, Nebraska ,
858-477: A written account of his story: Oswald had failed to seduce his wife and in revenge had managed matters so that Oswald should kill her on suspicion of infidelity. Soon afterwards Philip's infant son had been abducted by armed men. After a career of piracy in South America Philip had returned, accompanied by Bertram, seeking vengeance and his son. After renouncing vengeance on religious grounds, he had entrusted
924-645: Is a version of the Flying Dutchman story. In this version, the Dutchman is not a ghost ship but crewed by immortals who can only visit land once every seven years when the unbearable smell that is a side-effect of the elixir of life wears off. The story was adapted into the English melodrama The Flying Dutchman; or the Phantom Ship: a Nautical Drama, in three acts (1826) by Edward Fitzball , with music by George Rodwell . The 48-page text, published c. 1829, acknowledges
990-570: Is broken. Although it was believed that Will's curse was lifted after the "Ten years later" post-credit scene of At World's End , Will was still cursed aboard the Dutchman over 20 years later in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). The Flying Dutchman also made appearances in the video games Disney Infinity , Kingdom Hearts III , and Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life . In 1949, RCA Victor, inventors of
1056-533: Is killed in his turn. Philip is reunited with his son, and Matilda and Redmond marry. Canto 1: Bertram Risingham arrives at Barnard Castle , and after informing Oswald Wycliffe that he has killed Philip Mortham, as agreed, while Philip and he were both fighting for the Parliament at Marston Moor , claims Philip's accumulated treasure as his reward. Oswald instructs his son Wilfrid, a soft lad in love with Matilda Rokeby, to accompany Bertram to Mortham Castle to secure
1122-572: Is the model for the captain of the ghost ship. Fokke was renowned for the speed of his trips from the Netherlands to Java and was suspected of being in league with the Devil . The first version of the legend as a story was printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for May 1821, which puts the scene as the Cape of Good Hope. This story names the Dutchman ’s captain as Hendrick van der Decken and introduces
1188-456: The Tin Machine II (1991) album. "The Flying Dutchman" is a song by the pirate-themed music group The Jolly Rogers. Its lyrics narrate the encounter of a ship crew with the titular ghost ship. "Flying Dutchman" is a B-side from Tori Amos's 1992 debut album Little Earthquakes . "Flying Dutchman" is a track on Jethro Tull 's 1979 twelfth studio album Stormwatch . "The Rudder and
1254-553: The Blackwood's story as the source. Richard Wagner 's opera The Flying Dutchman (1843) is 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 a character attends a theatrical performance of The Flying Dutchman in Amsterdam. Heine had first used the legend in his Reisebilder: Die Nordsee ( Pictures of Travel:
1320-517: The Flying Dutchman was a 17th-century cargo vessel known as a fluyt . The first known print reference to the ship appears in Travels in various part of Europe, Asia and Africa during a series of thirty years and upward (1790) by John MacDonald: The weather was so stormy that the sailors said they saw the Flying Dutchman . The common story is that this Dutchman came to the Cape in distress of weather and wanted to get into harbour but could not get
1386-602: The Smithsonian American Art Museum , and by Howard Pyle , whose painting of the Flying Dutchman is on exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum. In "The Buccaneers" 1956, episode 22 of Season 1 features a ghost ship known as The Dutchman . Ultimately, it is found that a crew of pirates had taken the ship after the previous captain was hanged and used it in lucrative business, drawing other ships in, stealing their cargo, then scuttling them, all while haunting
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#17328475049831452-522: The 19th and 20th centuries. A well-known sighting was by Prince George of Wales, the future King George V . He was on a three-year voyage during his late adolescence in 1880 with his elder brother Prince Albert Victor of Wales and their tutor John Neill Dalton. They temporarily shipped into HMS Inconstant after the damaged rudder was repaired in their original ship, the 4,000-tonne corvette Bacchante . The prince's log (indeterminate as to which prince, due to later editing before publication) records
1518-526: The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), captained by Davy Jones until his heart was stabbed by Will Turner , who became the new captain of the Dutchman . In a story partly inspired by Richard Wagner 's opera , he can step on land once every ten years, and that at any time, if he finds a love that is true, then his attachment to the ship
1584-545: 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. The next literary reference introduces the motif of punishment for a crime, in Scenes of Infancy (Edinburgh, 1803) by John Leyden (1775–1811): It is a common superstition of mariners, that, in the high southern latitudes on the coast of Africa, hurricanes are frequently ushered in by
1650-460: The Gulf of St. Lawrence, Late in the evening, September 1804 : "Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark / Her sails are full, though the wind is still, / And there blows not a breath her sails to fill." A footnote adds: "The above lines were suggested by a superstition very common among sailors, who call this ghost-ship, I think, 'the flying Dutch-man'." Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), a friend of John Leyden's,
1716-453: The North Sea ) (1826), which simply repeats from Blackwood's Magazine the features of the vessel being seen in a storm and sending letters addressed to persons long since dead. In his 1833 elaboration, Heine introduced the chance of salvation through a woman's devotion and the opportunity to set foot on land every seven years to seek a faithful wife. It was once thought that Heine may have based
1782-551: The Rock," a 1956 release by David Whitfield , references a ghost ship, which is later identified as The Flying Dutchman . The story was adapted by Judith French into a play, The Dutch Mariner , broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 April 2003. The Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands has a roller coaster called De Vliegende Hollander ("The Flying Dutchman" in English), which features
1848-464: The animated show SpongeBob SquarePants , the Flying Dutchman appears as a ghostly pirate (rather than the ship of the same name) and an occasional enemy of SpongeBob. In the anime/manga series One Piece , the Flying Dutchman is an undersea pirate ship captained by Vander Decken and his descendants over the course of generations and has maintained a reputation as a ghost ship accordingly through its damaged appearance. Carl Barks wrote and drew
1914-470: The appearance of a spectre-ship, denominated the Flying Dutchman ... The crew of this vessel are supposed to have been guilty of some dreadful crime, in the infancy of navigation; and to have been stricken with pestilence ... and are ordained still to traverse the ocean on which they perished, till the period of their penance expire. Thomas Moore (1779–1852) places the vessel in the north Atlantic in his poem Written on passing Dead-man's Island in
1980-405: The artefacts to Philip and inform him that Redmond is his son. Bertram, moved, sends Edmund to tell Philip of his repentance, and ask him to lead forces to help Redmond. Oswald has Denzil executed and prepares to put pressure on Matilda to marry Wilfrid by readying the ruined church of Egliston for the beheading of her father and Redmond. Matilda agrees, but Wilfrid dies of his wounds. Oswald commands
2046-405: 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. There have been many reported or alleged sightings in
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2112-488: The castle is set on fire. Wilfrid and Matilda, through the efforts of Redmond, are able to escape the blaze. It emerges that Redmond, now in Oswald's hands, is the long-lost son of Philip, and that Philip has survived the assassination attempt. Oswald tries to force Lord Rokeby to accept a marriage between Wilfrid and Matilda, but Wilfrid's death forestalls this plan. Bertram kills his master Oswald to avoid further bloodshed, but
2178-487: The character-drawing more subtle, and the songs superior to all of his former lyrics. Andrew Lang also admired the songs, but considered the poem as a whole inferior to its predecessors, and, in common with other critics, thought the story better suited for a novel. In Edgar Johnson's opinion the structure of the poem was strikingly innovative, but beyond Scott's powers at that date to bring off wholly successfully. A. N. Wilson noted that most readers today think of it as
2244-596: The civilised rivals for her affections Wilfrid and Redmond: the latter had been her childhood companion after he was consigned to Rokeby's keeping because of his grandfather's destitution and physical deterioration in Ireland. For a while Rokeby had been inclined to favour a match proposed by Oswald between Matilda and Wilfrid, but he had changed his mind when Oswald defected to the Parliamentary side. Matilda tells Wilfrid and Redmond how Philip had consigned his treasure to her with
2310-408: The conflagration. Canto 6: Three days later, Edmund returns to the robber cave and unearths a small casket with gold artefacts. He is interrupted by Bertram and tells him how Denzil and he, taken captive after the conflagration, had agreed with Oswald to save their lives by making a statement that Rokeby had enlisted their aid to storm Barnard Castle. Oswald had received a letter from Philip asking for
2376-561: The crews. This is ultimately thwarted by Dan Tempest and crew, when they attempt to take the ship to harbor. In "Judgment Night" , a 1959 episode of Rod Serling 's The Twilight Zone , the U-boat captain who sank an Allied passenger ship in World War II finds himself doomed to forever relive the experience as a " Flying Dutchman " passenger of the torpedoed ship. Two other Twilight Zone episodes, " The Arrival " and " Death Ship " also refer to
2442-480: 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: that 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 him, asking him if he did not mean to go into
2508-594: The episode on Fitzball's play, which was playing at the Adelphi Theatre in London, but the run had ended on 7 April 1827 and Heine did not arrive in London until the 14th; it was not published until its revival in 1829. Unlike Fitzball's play, which is set off the Cape of Good Hope, Heine's account is set in the North Sea off Scotland. Wagner's opera was similarly planned to take place off the coast of Scotland, although during
2574-575: The executions to proceed, but Bertram rides into the church and shoots him dead before himself being killed by Oswald's men. Matilda and Redmond marry. Rokeby was judged Scott's best poem to date by several reviewers. In particular the newly developed character interest was generally welcomed, and there was praise for the vigorous and well-conducted story and for the work's moral beauty. Sales were initially promising. J. G. Lockhart reported that bookshops in Oxford were besieged by customers wanting to read
2640-590: The final rehearsals he transferred the action to another part of the North Sea, off Norway. Pierre-Louis Dietsch composed an opera Le vaisseau fantôme, ou Le maudit des mers ( The Phantom Ship, or The Accursed of the Sea ), which was first performed on 9 November 1842 at the Paris Opera . The libretto by Paul Foucher and H. Révoil was based on Walter Scott's The Pirate as well as Frederick Marryat 's novel The Phantom Ship and other sources, although Wagner thought it
2706-416: The following for the pre-dawn hours of 11 July 1881, off the coast of Australia : July 11th. 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
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2772-401: The legend dates from the late 18th century. According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman might try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. Reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed that the ship glowed with a ghostly light. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship functions as a portent of doom. It was commonly believed that
2838-590: The legend. The Flying Dutchman was also featured in "Cave of the Dead", a 1967 episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . In the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon "Return of the Flying Dutchman", the ship appears as an illusion created by Mysterio. In the 1976 Land of the Lost episode "Flying Dutchman", the ship appears captained by Ruben Van de Meer, who attempts to take Holly with him to give him company on his endless voyage. In
2904-535: The length to five cantos to enable publication for the Christmas market. He paid Rokeby a visit in late September and early October to gather local colour. The work was completed on the last day of 1812. Rokeby was published by John Ballantyne and Co. at Edinburgh on 11 January 1813, and at London on 15 January by Longman , Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. The price was two guineas (£2 2 s or £2.10), and about 3000 copies were printed. Four further editions followed in
2970-444: The motifs (elaborated by later writers) of letters addressed to people long dead being offered to other ships for delivery, but if accepted will bring misfortune; and the captain having sworn to round the Cape of Good Hope though it should take until the day of judgment. She was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago. Her master's name was Van der Decken. He was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of
3036-461: The murder at Marston and initiates a vain search for Bertram who has fled the scene. Oswald tells his son that Rokeby has been taken prisoner in the battle and consigned to his charge, and that though Redmond is Wilfrid's rival for Matilda's affection she may be induced to accept him to secure her father's release. Canto 3: After an arduous flight Bertram vows vengeance on Redmond, Oswald, and Wilfrid, believing that Oswald had intended to deprive him of
3102-545: The phantom-ship. The man obeyed, and reported that he could see on the water, below the ship in the air, one precisely like it. Just then another ship was seen in the air, only this one was a steamship, and was bottom-upwards, as the captain had said these mirages generally appeared. Soon after, the steamship itself came in sight. The sailors were now convinced, and never afterwards believed in phantom-ships. Another optical effect known as looming occurs when rays of light are bent across different refractive indices. This could make
3168-459: The poem, and bets were placed as to whether Rokeby would outsell Byron 's recent Childe Harold's Pilgrimage . Byron himself wrote urgently from Italy asking his publisher John Murray to send him a copy. In the event Rokeby sold ten thousand copies in the first three months. Thomas Moore sarcastically wrote that Scott's works were turning into a picturesque tour of Britain's stately homes. Lockhart, writing after Scott's death, admired
3234-426: 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
3300-411: The return of his son; Denzil announced that that son was Redmond, who had been abducted to Ireland as an infant by his grandfather O'Neale and brought back as a young man to be Rokeby's page, along with the artefacts which fell into Denzil's thieving hands, and which included an account engraved on gold tablets. Oswald has sent Edmund to retrieve the artefacts. Edmund tells Bertram that he intends to convey
3366-474: The same year. In 1830 Scott provided the poem with a new Introduction in Volume 8 of the 11-volume set of The Poetical Works . A critical edition is due to be published as Volume 4 of The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry by Edinburgh University Press. At Oswald's instigation Bertram makes an attempt on the life of Philip, which he mistakenly thinks has succeeded, and an attack on Rokeby Castle, in which
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#17328475049833432-401: The scene during the great civil war in 1643'. In June he was offered 3000 guineas for the poem, which had not yet been begun. By 10 December he is thinking of setting the new work 'near Barnard Castle ', and on the 20th he writes to his friend J. B. S. Morritt , owner of Rokeby Park , that he has in mind 'a fourth romance in verse, the theme during the English civil wars of Charles I. and
3498-411: The scene your own domain of Rokeby', and asking for detailed local information. The proceeds of the poem will help finance building work at his new home, Abbotsford . Composition seems to have started in the spring of 1812, but the first canto ran into problems. On 2 March he told Morritt that he had destroyed it 'after I had written it fair out because it did not quite please me'. In the later spring he
3564-417: The scenery of Rokeby , and found many thrilling episodes and lines scattered through the poem; he attributed its disappointing sales to the inevitable comparisons drawn by the public with Childe Harold ’s greater raciness and romantic glamour. In the 20th century John Buchan thought the plot too intricate for a poem. Comparing Rokeby with Scott's earlier works he found the landscape not as beguiling, but
3630-559: The seas until he found the true meaning of love. In the only plot point taken from earlier versions of the story, once every seven years, the Dutchman is allowed ashore for six months to search for a woman who will love him enough to die for him, releasing him from his curse, and he finds her in Pandora, played by Gardner. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise features a ship named the Flying Dutchman . It first made appearances in Pirates of
3696-469: The single 45 RPM format , released as one of their first singles a recording of the legend in song in bandleader Hugo Winterhalter 's "The Flying Dutchman", sung as a sea shanty . Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren wrote a concept album about the Flying Dutchman entitled Death Came Through a Phantom Ship . Tin Machine , fronted by David Bowie , mentions it in their song "Amlapura" on
3762-631: The topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms. Nicholas Monsarrat , the novelist who wrote The Cruel Sea , described the phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean in his unfinished final book "Master Mariner", which was partly inspired by this tale (he lived and worked in South Africa after the war) and the story of the Wandering Jew . Probably the most credible explanation is a superior mirage or Fata Morgana seen at sea: The news soon spread through
3828-465: The treasure to Matilda's keeping. Wilfrid and Redmond agree to convey Matilda to her captive father in Barnard Castle, transferring the treasure from Rokeby at the same time. Canto 5: Matilda, with Wilfrid and Redmond at Rokeby, admits the minstrel Edmund who opens the postern for Bertram and his robber band. The castle is set alight: Matilda, Redmond, the injured Wilfrid, and separately Bertram escape
3894-420: The treasure. Canto 2: As they arrive at Mortham, Bertram, who believes he has seen Philip's ghost, inadvertently reveals to Wilfrid that he killed him, but when Wilfrid tries to arrest him he reacts violently before being stopped by the living Philip who disappears again after warning Wilfrid not to divulge his continued existence. Oswald arrives, accompanied by Rokeby's page Redmond O'Neale, who says he witnessed
3960-410: The treasure. He encounters Guy Denzil and agrees to head a band of outlaws, including a young minstrel Edmund of Winston, quartered in a cave. Denzil tells Bertram that the treasure is in fact at Rokeby, whither Philip had moved it intending that his niece Matilda should inherit it in the event of his death in battle. Denzil and Bertram make plans to attack the castle. Canto 4: Matilda takes the air with
4026-402: The vessel that a phantom-ship with a ghostly crew was sailing in the air over a phantom-ocean, and that it was a bad omen, and meant that not one of them should ever see land again. The captain was told the wonderful tale, and coming on deck, he explained to the sailors that this strange appearance was caused by the reflection of some ship that was sailing on the water below this image, but at such
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#17328475049834092-557: Was at work again, now accompanied by the sound of the builders extending the cottage at Abbotsford. In the middle of July he sent the new Canto 1 for comment by James Ballantyne and William Erskine , but their verdict was unfavourable, sapping his confidence. He decided to burn what he had written, having 'corrected the spirit out of it', but by 2 September he had 'resumed the pen in [his] old Cossack manner' and 'succeeded rather more to [his] own mind'. Thereafter composition proceeded briskly, though at one stage Scott contemplated reducing
4158-505: Was based on the scenario of his own opera, which he had just sold to the Opera. The similarity of Dietsch's opera to Wagner's is slight, although Wagner's assertion is often repeated. Berlioz thought Le vaisseau fantôme too solemn, but other reviewers were more favourable. Dutchman (1964), a short play by Amiri Baraka , uses the legend as a symbol of entrapment. The Flying Dutchman has been captured in paintings by Albert Ryder , now in
4224-497: Was dramatised in the 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman , starring James Mason and Ava Gardner . In this version, the Flying Dutchman is a man, not a ship, and the main action takes place on the Mediterranean coast of Spain during the summer of 1930. Centuries earlier, the Dutchman had killed his wife, wrongly believing her to be unfaithful. At his trial, he was unrepentant and cursed God. Providence condemned him to roam
4290-500: Was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby; a poem (first published December 1812) that the ship was "originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed" and that the apparition of the ship "is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens". According to some sources, 17th-century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke
4356-425: 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
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