Flying Dutchman, a Dutch captain, fated for his sins to scour the sea and never reach port, who appeared from time to time to sea-captains as on a black spectral ship, and from the very terror he inspired made them change their course; there are many versions of this fable in the German mythology.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Fluxions * Fo