The Flying Dutchman
Is it a Ghost or is real?
According to folklore The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never go home, although various different accounts of the origin are all reported to be "true".
The name may have come from George Barrington´s Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) about a Dutch Man of War lost off the Cape of Good Hope, or it could have been about Captain Bernard Fokke who´s uncanny speeds from Holland to Java were considered only possible if he had help from the Devil.
The Flying Dutchman has also been the subject of numerous paintings, of which the most famous by Albert Ryder sits in the Smithsonian American Museum in Washington DC. Jethro Tull and Tori Amos have also sung about the mysterious Flying Dutchman.
At Eldon we like to think that it´s more about speed than anything else, because we know the importance of delivering our enclosures as quickly as possible. However, we prefer not to rely on a supernatural being who is the tempter of humankind, instead we prefer 620 bhp of Scania V8 to provide the power!
So, the next time you're driving through The Netherlands, watch out... you may be in for a GHOSTLY surprise!
|