Flying Dutchman

Flying Dutchman
1. a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, esp. near the Cape of Good Hope.
2. the captain of this ship, supposed to have been condemned to sail the sea, beating against the wind, until the Day of Judgment.

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▪ legendary ship
      in European maritime legend, spectre ship doomed to sail forever; its appearance to seamen is believed to signal imminent disaster. In the most common version, the captain, Vanderdecken, gambles his salvation on a rash pledge to round the Cape of Good Hope during a storm and so is condemned to that course for eternity; it is this rendering which forms the basis of the opera Der fliegende Holländer (1843) by the German composer Richard Wagner. (Wagner, Richard)

      Another legend depicts a Captain Falkenberg sailing forever through the North Sea, playing at dice for his soul with the devil. The dice-game motif recurs in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor) the mariner sights a phantom ship on which Death and Life in Death play dice to win him. The Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott (Scott, Sir Walter, 1st Baronet) adapted the legend in his narrative poem Rokeby (1813); murder is committed on shipboard, and plague breaks out among the crew, closing all ports to the ship.

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