The Flying Dutchman, piloted by David Jones, is the most frightening ship in Pirates of the Caribbean, a ghost ship that cannot be sunk and has long been a nightmare for merchant ships and pirates.
Davy jones
In reality, the "Flying Dutchman" is also one of the most famous ghost ships in the world, there are countless sightings and legends about it, a large number of stories about it have been adapted into film and television dramas, and Wagner even created an opera for it, which shows the position of the "Flying Dutchman" in Western maritime culture.
"The Flying Dutchman"
There are many versions of the origin story of the "Flying Dutchman", but most of them point to the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. At that time, the Dutch had a huge fleet of ships shuttling between the oceans, and the merchant ships piloted by Captain Fürkenberg were known for their speed and safety, and he had never had an accident on the dutch to Java route and was extremely fast, so some people thought that Captain Fürkenberg must have made some kind of deal with the devil to have such a magical sailing efficiency.
Legend has it that the adventurous Captain Fürkenberg used his soul as a stake and the devil rolled the dice in exchange for the harmless right to pass through some dangerous area. Although Captain Flkenberg is a master of gambling and keeps himself undefeated in a thousand ways, the deal with the devil is not so easy to end. The devil used trickery to lure Captain Fückenberg into taking the souls of the whole ship, and then he saw through his thousand tricks and took the souls of the whole ship into his pocket. Due to the curse of the devil, the merchant ship could never dock, and the dead souls of the crew after death would be imprisoned on the ship and could not be freed, so they have been floating on the sea to collect the orphan souls of the demons for the devil.
There have been many sightings of the "Flying Dutch" in history, the most famous of which was from the British Royal Family in 1881, when the unintended Prince George of Wales (later King George V) travelled to Australia on the 4,000-ton light cruiser HMS Bacchante. It was a royal tradition to take part in naval cruises, which were accompanied by George and his brother, as well as Secretary of the Navy John Dalton, for a three-year cruise.
According to the Royal Diary, at about 4 a.m. on July 11, 1881, a red glow hung over the sea about 200 yards in front of the bow of the Bakanti, and then an observer at the top of the front mast first spotted an ancient brig behind the light. In the next two minutes or so, 13 of the Bakanti crew and the star officer saw the strange ship, but she quickly disappeared with the strange red light after "sailing" from the starboard side of the Bakanti. No trace of any other vessel passing or sinking can be found on the surface of the sea. A few hours later, at 10:45, the lookout sailor who first spotted the ghost ship "Flying Dutchman" fell from the mast lookout post where he often worked, crashing onto the deck and was killed on the spot.
"Flying Dutchman" begins in Pirates of the Caribbean 2: The Coffin of Souls, when she was originally a gift from Calypso, the goddess of the sea, to David Jones to collect all the souls that died in the Seven Seas and take them to the world of the undead created by the goddess (David Jones's locker).
However, David Jones later joined other pirate leaders to imprison Calypso in the body of a mortal woman, so that the "flying Dutchman" was no longer a ferry to attract the undead, but the most fearsome pirate in the Seven Seas, except that other pirates robbed others of their belongings, and the "flying Dutchman" directly robbed people's souls.
crew
All seafarers captured by the "Flying Dutch", regardless of their status and race, were given the same choice: either to die as masterless undead floating between the seven seas, or to serve on the "Flying Dutchman", for the duration of their service depending on the number of their past sins.
But very few people can persist until the end of their service and leave, they either lose their humanity in the long years and become half-human, half-sea monsters, or assimilate with this ghost ship and eventually become part of the hull.
On board, the crew's greatest pastime is a game of "guessing points," and chips are the only thing they still have: time, a gamble that can challenge anyone, including David Jones.
Will Turner's father, Bill Turner, was once Captain Jack's underling of the Black Pearl, tied to a cannon and sunk to the bottom of the sea for opposing Barbosa's betrayal of Jack, and because he had previously secretly left a cursed Aztec gold coin to his son Will Turner, the entire crew of the Black Pearl fell into a curse. Trapped at the bottom of the sea as an undead, Bill Turner had to make a deal with David Jones to sell himself for a hundred years in exchange for his freedom.
"Laces" Bill Turner
Captain Jack himself nearly became a crew member of the Flying Dutchman, who sold it to David Jones for a hundred years to save his merchant ship Bad guy. Probably because Jack Sparrow was "so famous", David Jones allowed him to change the Bad Guy to the pirate ship Black Pearl, and let him be a pirate for more than ten years. However, Jack uncharacteristically tricks Will Turner into a "flying Dutchman" to pay off the debt, causing both generations of Turner to serve on the ghost ship.
captain
The first captain of the "Flying Dutchman" was David Jones, but after Will Turner stabbed David Jones in the heart, he replaced him as the new captain of the "Flying Dutchman", and those crew members also returned to normal after escaping the control of David Jones, so it can be speculated that the monster-like image of the crew, including David Jones's own octopus tentacle head should be from the sea goddess Calypso curse, when David Jones betrayed the goddess, from the moment David Jones betrayed the goddess, This curse was imposed on every crew member of the "Flying Dutchman".
Will Turner
Hull design
The "Flying Dutch" belonged to the galleons of the 17th century , about 170 feet ( 52 m ) long , with a displacement of about 420 tons , 46 guns on the side of the ship , and two triple-mounted transistor guns in pursuit.
The "Flying Dutchman" can not only sail in a windless environment, but also use the power given by the goddess of the sea to sneak out of the seabed to attack enemies, but her terrible point does not stop there, and her "Hammer of Kraken" can summon sea monsters in the depths of the ocean to chase all marked targets for her.
Kraken
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