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De Legende
The most famous legend of the sea is that of the Flying Dutc hman.
Superstition has it that whoever meets this ship is doomed
to perish with all hands on deck.. As protection against such
a fate, sailors would nail horse shoes to the mast. Some think
that this 17th century legend was made up by the English to
put their Dutch rival in a bad light.
Willem van der Decken, captain of the “Dutchman”,
who was employed by the Dutch East India Co [ VOC] did not manage
to round the Cape of Good Hope fast enough.
This is the tip of Africa where two oceans meet. Countering
currents and high winds make it very difficult for sailing ships
to round the Cape. Van der Decken then made a pact with the
Devil that he would make it around the Cape, even if he had
to sail upwind. God, so the story goes, punished the captain
and sentenced him to roam the world’s seas as ghost skipper
in perpetuity. Months turned into years, storms keep raging
and his ghost ship is being pushed from sea to sea to this day.
No waves can destroy it while other ships have perished nearby.
Such are the tales some of the survivors told about the ghost
ship the “Flying Dutchman”.
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