11 Facts About Flying Dutchman

Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever.

The common story is that this Flying Dutchman came to the Cape in distress of weather and wanted to get into harbour but could not get a pilot to conduct her and was lost and that ever since in very bad weather her vision appears.

Flying Dutchman's was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago.

Flying Dutchman was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of the devil.

Flying Dutchman told a sailor to go up to the foretop and look beyond the phantom-ship.

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Ward Moore's 1951 story "Flying Dutchman" used the myth as a metaphor for an automated bomber which continues to fly over an Earth where humanity long since totally destroyed itself and all life in a nuclear war.

Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman is adapted from an episode in Heinrich Heine's satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski, in which a character attends a theatrical performance of The Flying Dutchman in Amsterdam.

Flying Dutchman has been captured in paintings by Albert Ryder, now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and by Howard Pyle, whose painting of the Flying Dutchman is on exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum.

The Flying Dutchman was featured in "Cave of the Dead", a 1967 episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Centuries earlier the Flying Dutchman had killed his wife, wrongly believing her to be unfaithful.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines references the endless traveling aspect of the story by having The Flying Dutchman painted on the rear sides of all its aircraft with regular livery.