1) Class of World Sailing 2) Fictional ship 3) Legendary ghost ship 4) Optical illusion 5) Supernatural legend
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The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from 17th-century nautical folklore. The oldest extant version dates to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed ...
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[Efteling] The Flying Dutchman (or `De Vliegende Hollander` in Dutch) is a combination of a water coaster and a dark ride in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It should have gone operational on April 16, 2006 Easter, exactly 328 years after the disappearance of the legendary Dutch man of war The Flying Dutchman; due to constructio...
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[Pirates of the Caribbean] The Flying Dutchman, or simply referred to as the Dutchman, is a fictional ship in Disney`s Pirates of the Caribbean. The ship made its first appearance in Dead Man`s Chest under the command of the fictional captain, Davy Jones. The story and attributes of the ship were inspired by the actual Flying Dutchman of na...
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[pigeon] Flying Dutchman was a pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in 1945 from the People`s Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. ...
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[sternwheeler] The Flying Dutchman was a 19th-century steamship in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. It was the first steamboat to enter the Stikine River, in 1862, and the first vessel to take a cargo of lumber from Burrard Inlet (Vancouver harbour), in August 1863, under Captain William Moore. ...
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[train] The Flying Dutchman was a named passenger train service from London Paddington to Exeter. It ran from 1849 until 1892, originally over the Great Western Railway (GWR) and then the Bristol and Exeter Railway. As the GWR expanded, the destination of the train changed to Plymouth and briefly to {stnlnk|Penzance}. ==Early history== The ...
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in European maritime legend, spectre ship doomed to sail forever; its appearance to seamen is believed to signal imminent disaster. In the most ...
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Phantom ship supposed to haunt the waters round the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. According to the legend, the captain, Hendrik Vanderdecken, was condemned to sail for ever round the Cape because...
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The Flying Dutchman is the apparition of a Dutch vessel, said to be encountered off the Cape of Good Hope, and regarded as a portent of evil or to forebode ill luck. Legend relates that a Dutch captain, Van Straaten, was condemned, for murder or blasphemy, to beat up against the storms of the Cape until Doomsday, without reaching a haven.
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n] - the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day 2. [n] - a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope 3. [n] - a spectral ship said to be seen in storms, especially off the Cape of Good Hope
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noun a phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope
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a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, esp. near the Cape of Good Hope. · 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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