This is the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a ship that was doomed to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa forever.
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The Flying Dutchman legend has often been used in literature. It also served as the basis for Richard Wagner's opera `The Flying Dutchman'. The Flying Dutchman legend may have originated in the account of a superstitious seaman who saw such a mirage but did not understand its nature.
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Legend of The Flying Dutchman Thus the Flying Dutchman is a retold old myth, rekindled by the Dutch during an era when they were masters of the sea. The H.M.S. Bacchante encountered the Flying Dutchman again in 1881, also at the cape. The following day one of the two men that made the sighting fell to his death from...
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Oct 31, 2008 The legend of The Flying Dutchman is said to have started in 1641 when a Dutch ship sank off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope:
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Information about the Flying Dutchman. The term 'Flying Dutchman' actually refers to the captain, not his ship. Legend has it that this maniacal Dutch sea captain was struggling to round the Cape of Good Hope in the teeth of a terrible gale that threatened to sink his ship and all aboard.
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The Flying Dutchman, ghost ship of legend, was seen in the Cape of Good Hope There are several versions of the Flying Dutchman legend, the phantom ship...
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The Flying Dutchman Captain Hendrik van der Decken had just offloaded his cargo in Cape Town and was anxious to get back to sea again in his ship, the Flying Dutchman. His crew, The legend says that the Flying Dutchman continues to sail forever, as a ghost ship, trying still to sail around the Cape of Storms.
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The story of the Flying Dutchman is probably the best known ghost ship. The ship was sailing around the Cape of Good Hope (the southern tip of Richard Wagner wrote a play based on a legend that says the Captain is allowed to go ashore every seven years in order to redeem himself by winning the hand of a maiden.
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Britannia's collection of British Legends. Without helm or helmsman, she drives helpless before the gale, and forever is the play at dice with the Devil for his soul. In Cornwall another legend tells of a phantom ship whose appearance always presages a wreck.
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