The Flying Dutchman

[I'm goin' down]

Wouldn't you know it? Armistead ran out of Japanese ships to sink in RSRDC, so he made a convoy of Flying Dutchmen, and tried to put an end to them. What an imagination! A little nuts, but BOLD. No Happy Dale Sanitarium for him. Send him to the line, as a crazy skipper with an imagination is perfect for subsim. I wonder if he found out who stole the ice cream yet.

[denny927]

....this remember me the adventures tales of one guy....do you know don quixote and his windmill?

[SNAKE1937]

I see this ship about once every "war".

Looks cool!

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

As I write this, the Barbarinna is in contact of the Dutchman. Date: 06/24/44. North of Luzon. Coordinates: N 21'08", E 121'02"; Time: 0252 hrs. It is heading due east, right at my position;

None of the posts, except the brilliant one above, provide the coordinates for an intercept. Posting intercept information will aid others.

[MKalafatas]

Kudos to the developers! The fabled existence of this ghost ship adds interest to the game. Late afternoon in the S-boat, December 1941, 20 miles due south of Formosa, I stumbled upon a faint sonar contact, 6700 yards distant, due east. Visibility was perfect but nothing was in sight.

I hit the throttle --- no simple matter with enemy aircraft on patrol. Four hours at flank speed brought me no closer. As dusk fell I peered into the grey horizon, expecting the appearance of the ghostly apparition.

Alas, nothing appeared. No ghost --- no ship --- nothing but a persistent but invisible sonar contact 6700 yards away, moving at precisely 11 knots --- just fast enough to tease, but too fast to catch in the S-boat. I gave up the chase.

Could this have been the Flying Dutchman of lore?

[MKalafatas]

It just occurred to me --- I may have been chasing a submarine.

[Raptor22ADF]

Originally Posted by MKalafatas

It just occurred to me --- I may have been chasing a submarine.

Have you tried pinging it?

[MKalafatas]

I pinged many times to fix the range (6300-6700m). I am playing the stock SH 1.5. From what I read elsewhere in the forum, the stock game doesn't have subs. True?

[Just downloaded TMO, can't wait to load it up.]

[peabody]

Originally Posted by MKalafatas

I pinged many times to fix the range (6300-6700m). I am playing the stock SH 1.5. From what I read elsewhere in the forum, the stock game doesn't have subs. True?

[Just downloaded TMO, can't wait to load it up.]

If you were playing the stock game you were NOT chasing a sub. You are correct there are no AI subs in the stock game.

Peabody

[denny927]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

None of the posts, except the brilliant one above, provide the coordinates for an intercept. Posting intercept information will aid others.

you right, trying to load my old precious savegame where I was face to face with the ghost ship, but after so much time, savegame dont work anymore....

from what I remember was just south luzon straight, bearing NE, I think jan-feb 42, midnight time(dont remember exact hour)....sadly I cant be more precise due to savegame corrupted by a lot of mods in and out

[darqen27]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

Elder-Pirate had posted this pic in an earlier thread. Have not seen it myself.


RDP

I tried my all with this one, you cant do anything to it, cant even ram it

[darqen27]

Originally Posted by darqen27

I tried my all with this one, you cant do anything to it, cant even ram it

Also that cant be a pirate ship, too many gun ports, its more like a Ship of the Line

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by darqen27

I tried my all with this one, you cant do anything to it, cant even ram it

Originally Posted by darqen27

Also that cant be a pirate ship, too many gun ports, its more like a Ship of the Line

darqen, do you know what you are talking about? I have encountered the ghost ship. I think the picture which you assert cannot be "a pirate ship" appears to be the same ship that I sighted, observed, fired at, and chased. See my post above.

[darqen27]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

darqen, do you know what you are talking about? I have encountered the ghost ship. I think the picture which you assert cannot be "a pirate ship" appears to be the same ship that I sighted, observed, fired at, and chased. See my post above.

Yes actually I do know what pirate ships look like, other then the queen annes revenge, pirates didnt have anything bigger then sloops, it may be a pirate ship in the game, but real pirates didnt have triple gun decks

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by darqen27

Yes actually I do know what pirate ships look like, other then the queen annes revenge, pirates didnt have anything bigger then sloops, it may be a pirate ship in the game, but real pirates didnt have triple gun decks

You are mislabelling the ship. It is a known by most as a "ghost" ship. I have seen a video closeup of some of its crew, and they looked like pirate ghosts. Are you saying it does not exist? Or are you quibbling over the semantics of what someone has labelled it. As far as I am concerned it makes no difference. (i.e., in Homer's Iliad, he sometimes refers to chariots as "cars.")