History of the ghost ship the Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones captain


 The story of the Flying Dutchman's Ghost Ship is one story that is very well known and has become a legend throughout 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) The ghost ship also raised.
But, whether this story is real or not I do not know, or maybe still the same with the other legends are considered only to the extent of coral stories / fairy tales passed down through generations.
 
According to folklore , the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never be anchored , but have to wade through " seven seas " forever . Flying Dutchman is always visible from a distance , sometimes illuminated with dim light beam . Many versions of this story . According to some sources , this legend came from the Netherlands , while the others to claim that it originated from the British drama The Flying Dutchman ( 1826 ) by Edward Fitzball and the novel " The Phantom Ship " ( 1837 ) by Frederick Marryat , later adapted to Dutch story " Het Schip Vliegend " ( The Flying Ship ) by the Dutch clergyman 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 said that during the 17th century Dutch captain named Bernard Fokke ( 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 reach the speed demon earlier . But amid his voyage towards the Cape of God Hope sudden bad weather , so the shaky ship . Then a crew of the cruise ship that stopped asking . But the captain did not want to , then he said, " I swear I will not resign and will continue through the storm to reach the destination city , or I and all my boat crew will be damned forever " a sudden storm hit the ship so that they lose against nature . And cursed forever with the captain that his ship into the bodies of children living and sailing on the seven seas forever . That said , the ship doomed to sail the oceans until the end of time 7 . The story then spread very rapidly throughout the world .
Myth lately also tells if a modern ship saw this ghost ship and a modern crew gave the signal , then it will be a modern vessel sink / woe . For a sailor , unexpected encounter with a ghost ship The Flying Dutchman will bring danger to them and said, there is a way to circumvent the possibility of bumped into the ghost ship , namely the pair mast horseshoe on their ships as protection . Over the centuries - centuries , the legend of The Flying Dutchman becomes muse to poets and novelists . Since 1826 Edward has written a novel Fitzball The Pantom Ship ( 1837 ) were removed from the experience of meeting with this spooky vessel . Many famous poets such as Washington Irving and Sir Walter Scott are also interested in lifting this legend .
Flying Dutchman The term is also used to nickname some football athletes , especially the major players from the Netherlands . Ironically , the veteran country star Orange , Dennis Bergkamp exactly known as a phobia or fear of flying, so he was nicknamed The Non - Flying Dutchman . Some reports sighting the Flysing Dutchman who had documented :
1823 : Captain Oweb , HMS Leven tells has twice seen an empty vessel tossed around the middle of the ocean from a distance , but in the blink of an eye the ship then disappeared .

1835 : Narrated in that year , a British -flagged ship amid storm besieged by the ocean , was visited by an alien ship that is touted as the ghost ship The Flying Dutchman , and then suddenly the foreign ships approaching and as if to hit the ship them , but strangely before the two collide foreign vessels are then vanished instantly
1881 : Three children aboard HMS Bacchante including King George V had seen sebuat unmanned ships that sail 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 seen in Mulkzenberg , some people who saw it were surprised you indulge the obsolete vessel suddenly disappeared
1941 : Several witnesses reported Glencairn coast battered ship that hit a rock and split , but after an investigation at the scene , there was no sign 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 Flying Dutchman back apparition seen by the crew Jubilee MHS military ship near Cape Town in August 1942
1959 : The crew of the ship Straat Magelhaen back melaporakan see a mysterious ship adrift amid a sea of ​​empty with telescope .Davy Jones ( The 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 is believed to be a symbol of the spirit of seafaring . No one knows who it was Davy Jones , and some have put it together with the legend " Ship Flying Dutchman " where Davy Jones is believed to be the captain of the ghost ship or phenomenon also associated with a phenomenon that often occurs in " segitga Bermuda " . but through the myths and legends of the sailors , he symbolized the spirit of the sea floor .
In 1751 his name is mentioned in Chapter 15 of the book entitled Tobias George Smollett 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 out of his nostrils . What did he want from me ? I'm sure I never committed murder , except in the way of my profession , and I also never persecute anyone since the first time I went to the sea . "
He is described as someone who is arrogant and likes to terrorize , " the leader of the demons of the sea floor , and is often seen in various forms , standing between the lanyard on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks and other disasters . "
In 1803 the sailors uses the term " Davy Jones 's Locker " as slang or terms for the first time . Davy Jones 's Locker or locker davy jones in Indonesian is the designation for a grave or final resting place for all those who were drowned in the sea ." ... Sailors will meet underwater grave , or to use the term sailor , go to Davy Jones 's locker . "
Like most stories of immortal legend of the sea , there are many theories as to Davy Jones . Some say he was a sailor or a pirate who died at sea , while others claim that Davy Jones is the name of a bar owner in the narrative ballad ' Jones Ale is Newe , ' and that he had a terrible locker may be the place where he kept stock drink .

The owner of the bar in London in the 16th century , is said to run a bar where the sailors are taking its place will be sedated and put in a locker , and when they woke up , they will find themselves have been disebuah ships at sea and found that they has been forced into the Navy by " Press Gang " ( a special unit under the command of a competent officer whose job it forced people to enter into military service ) .
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