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I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions and doom, but had never given much credit to the report it seems that some years since a Dutch man-of-war was lost off the Cape of Good Hope, and every soul on board perished her consort weathered the gale, and arrived soon after at the Cape. The next literary reference appears in Chapter VI of A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) (also known as A Voyage to New South Wales), attributed to George Barrington (1755–1804): The common story is that this Dutchman came to the Cape in distress of weather and wanted to get into harbour but could not get a pilot to conduct her and was lost and that ever since in very bad weather her vision appears. The weather was so stormy that the sailors said they saw the Flying Dutchman.

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The first print reference to the ship appears in Travels in various part of Europe, Asia and Africa during a series of thirty years and upward (1790) by John MacDonald: The legend of the Flying Dutchman is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the VOC. Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/ United East Indies Company (VOC). An 18th-century painting of a VOC ship with Table Mountain in the background, used by navigators as the landmark to sail around southern tip of Africa In the Age of Sail, the Brouwer Route, devised by the Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer in 1611, greatly reduced the voyage between Cape of Good Hope ( Dutch Cape Colony) to Java ( Dutch East Indies) from almost 12 months to about 6 months, compared to the previous Arab and Portuguese monsoon route. In the 17th century, the size of the Dutch merchant fleet probably exceeded the combined fleets of England, France, Spain, Portugal, and the German states. Origins View of Table Bay (overlooked by Kaapstad, Dutch Cape Colony) with ships of the Dutch East India Company, c. It was commonly believed that the Flying Dutchman was a seventeenth-century cargo vessel known as a fluyt. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship functions as a portent of doom. Reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed that the ship glowed with a ghostly light. According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman might try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and of Dutch maritime power. The Flying Dutchman ( Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever.

The Flying Dutchman by Albert Pinkham Ryder c. 1887 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)