The Flying Dutchman

"*The* Dutchman *must have a captain.*"
—Bootstrap to Elizabeth Swann

"*Aye. The same terrible vessel whose very timbers are cut from the bodies and souls of doomed seamen*"
—Torrents to Jack Sparrow

 The ***Flying Dutchman*** is a ship featured in *The Hobbit* and *Pirates of the Caribbean* fanfiction, *The Hobbit and Pirates* crossover.

A s a supernatural ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman remains at the bottom of the sea under the control of its fearsome owner, Davy Jones.

It is based on the same ship of the same name from nautical lore.

## History

The sea goddess Calypso falls in love with the mortal pirate, Davy Jones. She rewards his love to her by giving him the position of ferrying those souls lost at sea into the afterlife. Jones had also gotten the ship, and eventually named it the Flying Dutchman. *(At World's End)*

After Calypso's betrayal and seeing that he had no heart, Jones later made it his duty to use the ''Dutchman'' as a vessel for him to spread his tyrany of evil. He would come across one sailor to another, letting them join his crew for 100 years of service to delay judgement. *(Dead Man's Chest)*

Centuries later, Jack Sparrow, Bilbo Baggins and their companions learn of a key that will lead them to the Heart of Davy Jones. Immediately with their friend Will Turner joining them travel to Tia Dalma's home. Dalma predicts where the ship will appear next and the crew continue their way there. The pirates come across a ship that Will Turner is tricked into believing is the *Flying Dutchman*. Thorin offers to go down with him. However, the real ship comes up and Jones' minions all go and capture the surviving members of the shipwreck. While aboard the Flying Dutchman, Will meets his father Bootstrap, who later assists Will and Thorin off the ship after the two of them made off with the Key of the Dead Man's Chest.

After learning Will and Thorin escaped with Bootstrap's help, Davy Jones above the ship's mass forces Bootstrap to watch as he orders the Kraken to destroy the ship Will is on and tells the guards to throw Bootstrap into the brig. Sometime later, after Cutler Beckett has Davy Jones' heart, Beckett summons Jones and his team there, and orders them to kill every pirate ship at sea. *(Dead Man's Chest, At World's End)*

Jones is forced to obey Beckett's demands and the only warning
he gives the pirates before is that they see them coming before giving them the
chance to surrender. During this time, Governor Swann begins to worry about
both Elizabeth and Bilbo, as they could be on any one of those ships. (*At World's End)*

After destroying all of the pirate ships in sight, Davy
Jones plays his piano mournfully. As he sits there, a tear comes down his face
as he hears the music of his music box that Calypso had given him He however
gets angered after hearing the sounds of Beckett's soldiers board his
ship.  Jones demands that they leave, and
the chest and his heart with it. However, Beckett denies all of his claims and
points out that they need prisoners to interrogate and that tends to work best
when they are alive. Swann asks if Jones gives them a chance to surrender, but
the ship's captain points out the only warning they give the pirates is that
they are coming. Swann also points out that his daughter or her friend could
have been on any of those ships; however, Jones points out that Elizabeth and
Bilbo are dead, taken with the Pearl, along with its captain. At another point
in this conversation, Jones points out this ship does as its captain commands
it, but Beckett instead states that the ship will sail As it is commanded by the Company. He also points out that he thought Jones learned all of that after he ordered the captain to kill his pet and that the ocean is no longer Davy's
world. (*At World's End)*

Sometime later when the *Black Pearl* escapes, and Sao Feng escaping with Elizabeth Swann and Bilbo Baggins on his ship, Beckett tells Groves that he will signal the Dutchman to follow Sao Feng while he follows Jack's ship. However, during all of this, Beckett's ship unexpectedly is destroyed when a ship pole falls on top (*At World's End)*.

The Flying Dutchman attacks Sao Feng's ship as told by Cutler Beckett capturing its survivors. While the group on *The Empress* are found, Bilbo and Elizabeth Swann are reunited with James Norrington, who offers his quarters to Elizabeth and Bilbo. However, both of them refuse to do so. When the group is on the Flying Dutchman's deck, Jones senses that one of Captain Swann's members are bearing the Mark of Calypso.He demands to See Bilbo's wrist and notices that this charcter does indeed have Calypso's mark and is her ward, and by default, Jones' salvation. The captain then orders his minion next to him to take Bilbo to the Captain's cabin and the rest of the group to the brig. Jones explains his reasoning on keeping Bilbo separate from the others to keep an eye on him and says that because he is Calypso's ward, Bilbo is his as well by default because she is in human form.   (*At World's End)*

Jack and Bilbo find themselves imprisoned once again, with the two of them struggling on how they will free themselves. Jack begins hallucinating the many pictures of himself, making Bilbo sure that Jack still lost his mind. While pacing in the cell, Sparrow uses the old technique that Will showed him in Port Royal, managing managed to free himself and Bilbo out of their cells. The duo went out to the ship's deck to recover the Dead Man's Chest, but found that it was being guarded by Mullroy and Murtogg. While the duo bickered, Jack and Bilbo made their way out with the chest in hand. . While they made their way out, the two were intercepted by Davy Jones, who mockingly called them "two lost birds [that never learned to fly". He begins to battle Jack, but the pirate takes both Bilbo and the Dead Man's Chest "flying up" on the sails, where he fights Jones on top of one of the sails with Bilbo out of harm's way (*At World's End)*.

## Trivia

* Those who have stayed more than a crew member for more than 100 years, then they begin to blend in with the ship's wall.
* The look of the *Flying Dutchman* was partially inspired by old Dutch "fluyts"
* It was doomed to sail the seas for eternity because the captain had foolishly cursed God, and vowed to roam the cape of Good Hope until Judgement

Day.

* The *Flying Dutchman* is an actual ship that has been reportedly been seen, as it is a ghost ship in Nautical folklore