Origins View of Table Bay (overlooked by Kaapstad, Dutch Cape Colony) with ships of the Dutch East India Company, c. ![]() It was commonly believed that the Flying Dutchman was a seventeenth-century cargo vessel known as a fluyt. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship functions as a portent of doom. Reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed that the ship glowed with a ghostly light. ![]() According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman might try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and of Dutch maritime power. The Flying Dutchman ( Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever. ![]() The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder c. 1887 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
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