The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-16

doomed to continue the hopeless strug-
gle OF rounding the cape in the teeth
of terrific storm.
Today may be met a large number
OF sailors who have seen the phantom
ship, and all agree as to certain de-
tails. Whenever the Flying Dutch
man is seen she is always rolling and
pitching as though fierce storm
ragged, and this in spite of the fact
that all around is calm and still.
Around her topmast plays a flash of
blue lightning.
| Her phantom crew are always dress
ed as were the sailors of the period in
striped jerseys, and wearing red wool
en- caps, and are seen fever4shly rush
ing hither and thither to carry out the
commands of the choleric giant of a
captain.
All the reports, too, agree as to
style OF the ship, all wood, very high
in the poop, and other details in per-
feet accord with the ships of the late
sixteenth century.
The Flying Dutchman was seen
during the great war by the entire
crew of British ship about 100 miles
west of the Cape.
1--WE were homeward bound" said
one of the eye witnesses, land the sea
was perfectly caln and we were vain
ly trying to pick up breeze. 1t was
toward evening when daylight was
just giving place to dusk. Almost sud
denly on the bow side appeared a
large wooden ship with the hindmost
part of her hull very high, of build
of a bygone century.
But the weirdest part of it was that
she was being tossed up and down
like a cork, straining every timber to
make Roadway, and plunging as
though in the teeth OF a fierce gale.
We could see the crew i'll a perfect
frenzy carrying out the orders OF a
huge man who was evidently the cap
tain.
There was no sound but suddenly
a vivid flash of blue lightning seemed
to play around her topmast, and at the
same instant the vessel disappeared as
though it had been wiped from the
surface of the ocean. The next day
our ship was torpedoed, and most OF
the crew drowned"
1t it said that the Flying Dutchman
appears only to the crew of vessel
that is doomed
The crew of Dutch ship, the Lily,
told a tale very similar to the above,
she having encountered the phantom
ship near the Cape, and the next day
the Lily was wrecked in a>terrihc
storm, and all aboard, save four Of the
chew, were drowned.
The East Coast OF England is
haunted by the apparition of ship
totally different from the Flying
Dutchman. She has been seen off Gro
mer and the Yorkshire coast.
She is quite modern vessel, but
her masts, rigging, sails and hull are
Iencrusted with ice and frost, long lei
Giles hang from her rigging, and she
plows her way through mass of ice
foes.
Many phantom ships, too, have been
seen off the coast of Cornwall and the
East coast of Scotland. The Black
Lugger is a weird and terrible appari-
ton that haunts the Scottish coast.
AS her name implies, she is lug
ger, though her hull and ,nasts are OF
the ordinary kind, all her sails are
made of Grape, black as SCOT
She sails slowly and steadily straight
ahead and without the slightest sound
or divergence from her course passes
through any vessel that may be in her
way To see the somber Black Lug
ger as in the case OF the Flying Dutch
man, means disaster, and bad luck
often death, overtakes those who en-
counter this weird ghost of the ocean
London Answers.