Flying Dutchman ghost ship story is one of the most famous stories and legends have been around the world. There have been many books written with a story of this legend, even in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) ghost ship is also raised.
 
But, whether true or not this story is I do not know, or might still be the same as any other legends that are considered only limited reef story / fairy tale hereditary.
 
According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never be anchored, but it must wade through the “seven seas” forever. Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance, sometimes illuminated by dim light highlight. Many versions of the story. According to some sources, this legend came from the Netherlands, while the others to claim that it comes from English play The Flying Dutchman (1826) by Edward Fitzball and the novel “The Phantom Ship” (1837) by Frederick Marryat, later adapted into story of the Dutch “Het Vliegend SCHIP” (The Flying Ship) by a Dutch priest AHC Römer. Other versions include the opera by Richard Wagner (1841) and “The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea” by Washington Irving (1855).
 
Some reliable sources say that in a 17th century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke named (another version called the captain “Ramhout Van Dam” or “Van der Decken”) across the sea from Holland to Java with incredible speed. He is suspected of asking for help to achieve a speed demon earlier. But amid his voyage towards the Cape of God Hope sudden bad weather, so the ship roll. Then a crew requested that the voyage terminated. But the captain did not want, and then he said “I swear I will not retreat and will continue through the storm to reach the destination city, or I and all my boat crew will be cursed forever” All of a sudden storm hit the ship so that they lost against nature. And cursed forever The Captain with the children his boat into the bodies of living and sailing on the seven seas for eternity. That said, the ship was condemned to sail the oceans until the end of time 7. then the story spread very rapidly throughout the world.
 
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Ahir-ahir myth also tells if a modern ship saw this ghost ship and the crew of modern signaling, then the modern ship will sink / woe.For a sailor, an unexpected encounter with a ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman will bring danger to them and it is said, there is a way to circumvent the possibility of passing the ghost ship, namely by putting a horseshoe on the mast as protection of their ship. Over the centuries – centuries, the legend of The Flying Dutchman is an inspiration of poets and novelists. Edward Fitzball since 1826 has written the novel The Pantom Ship (1837) is lifted from the experience of meeting with this sinister vessel. 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 some football athletes, especially the top players from the Netherlands. Ironically, veteran country star Orange, Dennis Bergkamp precisely known as a phobia or fear to fly, so he was nicknamed The Non-Flying Dutchman. Several sighting reports The Flysing Dutchman who had documented:
 
1823: Captain Oweb, tells the story of HMS Leven had twice seen an empty boat bobbing amid the sea of ​​bobbing in the distance, but in a moment later the ship disappeared.
 
1835: Narrated in that year, a British-flagged ship is besieged by a storm in the middle of the ocean, was visited by an alien ship is touted as the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman, and then suddenly a foreign ship is approaching, and as if to hit ship them, but strangely before the two collide foreign vessels are then vanish.
 
1881: Three children HMS Bacchante including King George V has been seen sebuat unmanned ship that sailed their boats against the current. The next day, they encountered one rather than die in a terrible state.
 
1879: Son of the SS Pretoria also claimed to have seen the ghost ship.
 
1939: the ship is seen in Mulkzenberg, some people who saw it were surprised kerana obsolete ships were suddenly to disappear
 
1941: Glencairn beach Several eyewitnesses reported an obsolete ship that crashed into a rock and split, 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 and then menghilang.Seorang employee has documented the discovery in his diary.
 
1942: The appearance of The Flying Dutchman crew again seen by MHS Jubilee military sea near Cape Town in August 1942
 
1959: The crew of the ship Straat Magelhaen back melaporakan saw a mysterious ship adrift amid a sea of ​​empty with telescope. (Dipta)
Davy Jones (Captain Of The Flying Dutchman)
 
 
Davy Jones was first recorded in 1726. According to the beliefs of the ancient mariner, he was a sailor (pirate) who drowned with his ship into the ocean floor, but his spirit remains alive and believed to be a symbol of the spirit of its exterior. No one know who Davy Jones was, some even connect associate with the legend “The ship Flying Dutchman” in which Davy Jones believed to be the captain of the ghost ship or a phenomenon also associated with a phenomenon that often occurs in “segitga Bermuda”. but through the legends and tales of the sailors, he symbolized the spirit of the seabed.
 
 
 
 
In 1751 his name is mentioned in Chapter 15 of the book Tobias George Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrin Pickle: “By God, Jack, you may say what you want, but I’ll be damned if it was not Davy Jones himself. I knew him through the eyes cawannya , three rows of teeth, horns and tail, and blue smoke coming out of his nostrils. What does he want from me? I’m sure I’ve never committed a murder, except in the way of my profession, and I also have never persecuted anyone since I first went to the sea. “
 
He is portrayed as an arrogant and likes to terrorize, “the leader of the demons from the seabed, and is often seen in various forms, standing among the lanyard on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks and other disasters.”
 
In 1803 the sailors use the term “Davy Jones’s locker” as slang or terms for the first time. Davy Jones’s Locker or Davy Jones locker in the Indonesian language is the name for a grave or final resting place for all people who drowned in the sea.
 
“… Sailors will meet an underwater cemetery, or to use the term seaman, went to Davy Jones’s locker.”
 
Like most stories of the legend of the immortal sea, there are many theories about Davy Jones. Some say he was a sailor or a pirate who died at sea, while others claimed that Davy Jones is the name of a bar owner in the story of the ballad ‘Jones Ale is newe,’ and that he had a horrible lockers may be the place where he storesstock drink.
 
Owner of a bar in London on ke16 century, is said to run a bar where the sailors are taking place will be sedated and put in a locker, and when they awoke, they will find themselves has been disebuah ships at sea and found that they have been forced into the Navy by the “Press Gang” (a special unit under the command of an authorized officer whose job it forced people to enter into military service).
 
Some experts say that Davy is perhaps another form of deviation “duppy”, (spirits or ghosts in the beliefs of Africans and Indians), and also said that the sign of D and V in the word Davy is a symbol of Satan.