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3 unusual facts about The Phantom Ship


Phantom Ship

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

Pierre-Louis Dietsch

The libretto by Paul Foucher and H. Révoil was based on Walter Scott's The Pirate as well as Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship and other sources, although Wagner thought it was based on his scenario for Der fliegende Holländer, which he had just sold to the Opera.

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

Phantom Ship

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste, a 1935 film shortened and released in the US as The Phantom Ship