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3 unusual facts about Flying Dutchman


Faery: Legends of Avalon

The mythical worlds that serve as the game's setting are drawn from preexisting mythologies, and include the ghost ship Flying Dutchman, the great tree Yggdrasil, and the City of Mirage, which is built on the back of a giant beetle.

Flying Dutchman Funicular

It is believed to be the only commercial funicular of its type in Africa, and takes its name from the legend of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship.

Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario

They learn that Captain Van Straaten has a curse on himself much like the Flying Dutchman.


Curses, Hexes and Spells

Marketed as children's book, it explains what exactly "curses" are, and describes supposed curses on families (such as the House of Atreus in Greek Mythology, the House of Habsburg or the Kennedy family), creatures, places (the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea), wanderers (like the Flying Dutchman) and ghosts.

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

Champions like the Ventnor planing hydrofoil; the Flying Dutchman Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Superdocious for short) in which Rodney Pattisson won a gold medal at the Mexico Olympics; Rita, the Laser in which Ben Ainslie won an Olympic gold medal in Sydney; and "Defender II"

Terneuzen

Tradition has it that Terneuzen was once the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman.


see also

Fred Imhoff

A group of sailors who sailed many Dutch National Classes, like the Solo as well as Flying Dutchman and Yngling.

Keith Musto

He competed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the Flying Dutchman class and won a silver medal along with Tony Morgan.

Phantom Ship

The Phantom Ship, a Gothic novel about the legend of the Flying Dutchman

SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman

SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman is a SpongeBob SquarePants video game developed by Vicarious Visions and BigSky Interactive, Inc. and published by THQ.