Throughout the ages seamen have reported seeing ghost ships at sea.
The most famous and legendary of all was the "Flying Dutchman". The sight of which to a sailor meant doom was imminent.
The "Flying Dutchman" was a Dutch man-of-war built in the 1700's. As the story goes she was a Dutch East India Company ship that was rounding the infamous Cape of Good Hope when she hit a severe storm. Rather than find safe harbour, the captain said he'd hold his heading until judgement day and the ship and her crew disappeared into the storm to never be seen again......
Until.....sailors started reporting sighting her all the way through to the 20th century. Even King George V claimed to have sighted her between Sydney and Melbourne in 1880 while he was on board the "HMS Inconstant".
She was often said to be seen with dark clouds above her and she would pass across other ships bows right before something terrible happened.
Happy Halloween!
+Brad Skelton
The most famous and legendary of all was the "Flying Dutchman". The sight of which to a sailor meant doom was imminent.
The "Flying Dutchman" was a Dutch man-of-war built in the 1700's. As the story goes she was a Dutch East India Company ship that was rounding the infamous Cape of Good Hope when she hit a severe storm. Rather than find safe harbour, the captain said he'd hold his heading until judgement day and the ship and her crew disappeared into the storm to never be seen again......
Until.....sailors started reporting sighting her all the way through to the 20th century. Even King George V claimed to have sighted her between Sydney and Melbourne in 1880 while he was on board the "HMS Inconstant".
She was often said to be seen with dark clouds above her and she would pass across other ships bows right before something terrible happened.
Happy Halloween!
+Brad Skelton
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