Flying Dutchman
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The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port and doomed to sail the sea forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Gol
The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder c. 1887
View of Table Bay (overlooked by Kaapstad, Dutch Cape Colony) with ships of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1683.
An 18th-century painting of a VOC ship with Table Mountain in the background
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC). The legend of the Flying Dutchman is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the VOC.
Fluyt
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A fluyt is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel. Originating in the Dutch Republic in the 16th century, the vessel was designed to
Flying Dutchman
…sight of this phantom ship functions as a portent of doom. It was commonly believed that 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…
1667 illustration of a Dutch fluyt
A fluyt; pen-and-ink plate by Gordon Grant from The Book of Old Ships (1924).
Hector, a replica