One of the most famous ghost ships is considered to be the Flying Dutchman. People consider his tragedy a legend, but this is not true. In 1641, the captain of the legend, Hendrix Vanderdecken, took the ship on its final voyage to the port of what was once the Dutch East Indies. Despite the resistance of the crew and a terrible storm near the Cape of Good Hope, the captain continued his voyage no matter what. Having got into a terrible storm, the entire crew perished and since then the ship is doomed to eternal sailing in the waters of the Cape of Good Hope. It is said that the ship was seen in the ocean in the 20th century.
One of the first written evidence of a meeting with the Flying Dutchman dates back to 1835. This meeting is described by the captain of one English ship. The sudden encounter with the ghost forced the British to change the course of the ship so as not to face the legend that floated right on them and was a mysterious fog like a covered white shroud. This is what was described in the shift log. The next meeting took place with the British warship Bacchante in 1881. On the same day, one of the sailors dies, crashing on the deck during work. After all, the sailors decided that meeting the Dutchman did not bring anything good. In 1939, the legend-ghost was observed by several dozen people on the beach in South Africa. Posta all these people will leave their signatures under the certificate of what they saw. As one of the journalists described what he saw,which was also a witness: “The ship suddenly appeared on the water and quite naturally and distinctly kept on the waves. All the people were terribly alarmed and very heatedly discussed this phenomenon. Just as suddenly, the ship disappeared. The last meeting took place in the waters of Table Bay, and the legend just disappeared into the clouds, leaving the same mystery of its appearance as the last time …