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For centuries , sailors around the world have told the legend of a cursed ghost ship , named The Flying Dutchman.

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  1. For centuries, sailorsaround the world have told the legend of a cursedghostship, named The Flying Dutchman.

  2. The ship is cursed, and as suchcan never return to port. Sinceit has placeto go, The Flying Dutchman sailsaround the oceanaimlessly, haunting the minds of sailorsandtoyingwith the imaginations of seafarersglobally.

  3. There have been tales for ages, of late-night spotters in the crow's nest of a shipseeing a ghostship passing theirbow. Men swear on theirlivesthat the cursedship, The Flying Dutchman was seensailing past them.

  4. The ship is saidtooriginally have sailedfrom the Dutch port Terneuzen, ( close toourlittletown) underthe command of Captain Willem Van Der Decken.

  5. The taletellsthat Van Der Deckensailed out on Easter, but becametrapped in a storm whensailingthrough the Cape of Good Hope andthat Van Der Deckencursed god andyelled: "Even if God would let me sail til Judgement Day, I willround the cape!"

  6. Andjustmoments, after he saidthis the storm subduedand a echoingvoicetoldhim Van Der Decken - Youwillsail the seas for alleternity!

  7. After the voicedisappeared, the crew of the shipalldiedandWillem Van Der Deckenand The Flying Dutchman wouldfromthen on sail the seas, sometimesbeingseenbysailors in bad weather as a ghostlysillouhettesailingagainst the wind.

  8. The shipbecame a ghostshipthatcan never go home, and is doomedtosail the oceansforever. The Flying Dutchman is usuallyspottedfromafar, sometimesseentobeglowingwithghostly light. It is saidthatifshe is hailedbyanothership, her crew willoftentrytosendmessagesto land or topeople long since dead. In oceanlore, the sight of thisphantomship is reckonedbyseafarerstobe a symbol of doom.

  9. Throughout the years, manysailors have claimedtosee a shipsailing past them, andthendisappearing. One of the most famous men whosworeto have seen The Flying Dutchman is Prince George of Wales, alongwith his brother Prince Albert Victor. In his writings, he statedthat no lessthanthirteen men saw The Flying Dutchman sailbytheirship in the middle of the night, and a few hours later disappearedfromall site intothin air.

  10. This story maybe a legend tothosewhocasuallyreadaboutstories on the ocean's open waters, but onething is for certain: A sailor does notdareto call the bluff of the mightyocean for they do not want tofallvictimto the samefate as The Flying Dutchman.

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