Based from several sources, the Dutch captain on 
Bernard Fokke the 17th century is an example of the ship’s captain
ghost. Fokke gain notoriety for 
journey from Holland to Java with great speed 
normal and suspected of having ties with the devil to 
increase the speed. On the basis of some 
source, the captain was called by Falkenburg 
in the Dutch version of the story. He was called the “Van 
der Decken “(meaning off the decks | Above Deck) in 
Marryat’s version and “Ramhout van Dam” in the version 
Irving’s. Sources do not agree that the “Flying Dutchman” 
is the name of the ship or a nickname for the 
captain. 
According to many versions, the captain vowed that he 
will not retreat in a storm, but will continue 
his efforts to seek the Cape of Good Hope, although until 
doomsday. According to some versions, crime 
terrible has happened, or the crew has 
infected by the plague and not allowed 
to dock in the harbor. Since then, ships and 
crew was sentenced to always sail, never 
kedarat. According to some versions, this occurs in 
1641, another guess in 1680 or 1729. 

Many note the equation of the Flying Dutchman with 
Christian story of The Wandering Jew. 
Terneuzen (Netherlands) referred to as the home of the legend 
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 the Richard Wagner opera. 

Some witness sightings of The Flying Dutchman: 

1823 Captain of the ship HMS Leven Oweb; two-time view 
an empty vessel who wandered blindly in the middle of the ocean, 
one of which may be the Flying Dutchman. 

1835 A British ship had time to see The Flying 
Dutchman speeding toward him, but after 
close to just disappear. 

1879 Some crew members had seen the ship SS Petrogia 
ghost. 

1881 three crew members of HMS Baccante in which there 
King George V saw it. The next day the crew seornag 
who had seen sudden death sudden. 

Seen in Mulkenzenberg 1939, makes the people 
look confused because all of a sudden the old ship 
just disappeared. 

1941 There are reports from the Coast Glenclaim about 
an old ship that hit a reef. After the investigation 
nothing at all shipwrecks in the vicinity. 

1942 Seen by MHS Jubille ship near Cape Town, 
Southern Africa. 

According to fairy tales, The Flying Dutchman is a ship 
ghost who could never be docked, but should 
sailed the “seven seas” forever. Flying Dutchman 
always visible from afar, sometimes illuminated with 
ghost light.