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The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and of Dutch maritime power .
Joost van Straaten was an 18th-century sea captain whose soul was claimed by Mephisto. [2] In life, he was a greedy and cruel sailor who ignored warnings of a treacherous storm, resulting in his ship and crew being swallowed by the sea.
The Flying Dutchman is a 1890 novel by a British author Michael Arlen, published by Heinemann in the UK and by Doubleday Doran in the US. [1] It was his last book before he had his first child. The novel has been characterised as a psychological study of "an unfrightened man exploring the darkness of the mind."
Voyage of Slaves is the third and final novel in Brian Jacques' Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. It was released on September 13, 2006 in the UK and September 14, 2006 in the US. The cover art was illustrated by Michael Koelsch, who had previously illustrated the cover art of the first novel in the series. [1]
The old legend of the Flying Dutchman (a legend, by the bye, possessing all the rich materiel which a vigorous imagination could desire) is worked up with so many of the pitiable niaiseries upon which we have commented, that few persons of disciplined intellect will derive from the medley any other impressions than those of the ridiculous and ...
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On 16 April 1944 she was repaired again in Norfolk. On 23 July 1944 she set sail to New York, where maintenance was done and she participated in exercises. She was assigned to a "Killer-Group" patrolling the western part of the Atlantic Ocean, where she received the nickname "Flying Dutchman". [2]
Flying Dutch (ISBN 0-356-20111-2) is the third humorous-fantasy novel by popular British author Tom Holt.First published in the UK in 1991 by Orbit Books.. Inspired by Wagner's 1843 opera The Flying Dutchman, the novel asserts that the famous Dutchman and his crew were not, in fact, cursed by the Devil, but were instead the victim of a flawed alchemical experiment which made them immortal, but ...