You don't see this often

[magic452]

20 Feb 1943 Radar reported fast contact in the Luzon Strait.
First time I've seen this in a long time.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/AttentionGhost.jpg

24 Feb. 1943 Found her again but this time was different.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/DuchmanZero.jpg

Two of 'em. They buzzed her all the time I was in contact.
I was within 5,000 yards at one point but they payed me no mind.

magic

[Armistead]

Wish you guys would stop teasing me with these fake SS's of a ship that can't exist. Over a year and I've never seen it...Ya'll got to be making this ship up....:haha:

No way I'm the only one that hasn't seen it...:cry:

[Webster]

i saw it only once and it must have been doing something like 20kts


i even thought about modding it once so it would only do 3-5kts so we could stay with it when found but i lost intrest and never did the mod.

in stock it had a full speed setting i think for 25kts or something silly like that

i dont know if TMO or RFB ever took it out or left it in the game and i never asked about it

[Task Force]

yep... lol, ive seen this ship.ist a fast one.:yep:

anyone ever thought of makeing it playable... so you could go around and distroy american, and japanease ships... (ex it would be enemy to all)

like davy jones ship in the pirates of the carribean movies... (ex, it could still dive.)

and it would fire broadsides that could tear apart most of the warships.

[kstanb]

That's the flying dutchman!!

according to folklore (and wikipedia)..
"it is a ghost ship that can never go home, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. It is said that if hailed by another ship, its crew will try to send messages to land or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom."

how was your patrol after seeing it? did you get yourself sunk?

[Task Force]

That's the flying dutchman!!

according to folklore (and wikipedia)..
"it is a ghost ship that can never go home, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. It is said that if hailed by another ship, its crew will try to send messages to land or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom."

how was your patrol after seeing it? did you get yourself sunk?

so its a plane magnent... lol

[SteamWake]

20 Feb 1943 Radar reported fast contact in the Luzon Strait.
First time I've seen this in a long time.



24 Feb. 1943 Found her again but this time was different.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/DuchmanZero.jpg

Two of 'em. They buzzed her all the time I was in contact.
I was within 5,000 yards at one point but they payed me no mind.

magic

Now that I havent seen.

Shopped :yeah:

[Armistead]

You're all lying....STOP IT....

it doesn't exist. If it doe's I would've seen it by now........

We set out in Luzon on Halloween night, roasted marshmellows on the deck and told ghost stories....Still, it didn't show up.

Guess you have to believe in ghost to see it.

[magic452]

She was dong 25kn. both times.

Kstnab I'm still in contact with it now but I haven't seen hide nor hair of IJN shipping since the first sighting on the 20th. And now that I think back whenever I've seen her before I don't think I saw any shipping after for a long time.

Has anybody else noticed this?


Armistead I'll trade you one of my Dutchman for one of your BIG convoys :know: :haha:


Magic

[kstanb]

Well, I guess the portent of doom only happen if you see it in real life!!

Probably this is just an easter egg from developers

[FIREWALL]

I've never seen the second pic. :o

[ETR3(SS)]

While I haven't seen it personally, I can attest to the fact that she is indeed in the game. Have a look in your Sea folder, the Dutchman is there.

[FIREWALL]

While I haven't seen it personally, I can attest to the fact that she is indeed in the game. Have a look in your Sea folder, the Dutchman is there.


I looked carefully in Sea folder and don't see it.

[ETR3(SS)]

I just formatted my HD so when I get SH4 reinstalled I'll find it again.

[Armistead]

She was dong 25kn. both times.

Kstnab I'm still in contact with it now but I haven't seen hide nor hair of IJN shipping since the first sighting on the 20th. And now that I think back whenever I've seen her before I don't think I saw any shipping after for a long time.

Has anybody else noticed this?


Armistead I'll trade you one of my Dutchman for one of your BIG convoys :know: :haha:




Magic

On, stop it, next thing you'll be saying it has beautiful ghost women on board in long dresses.
Have you found the hula dancers yet?

[ETR3(SS)]

ok found it! \Data\Sea\NFD :up: Someone should make this playable. :haha:

[magic452]

Armistead Do you mean like this one? :D :D

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/Ghostgirl.jpg

Saw her again today, about 75 Nm. South of the first two sightings.
Led me to a very nice convoy, I got two ships down so far for about 14,000 tons. :yeah:

Magic

[Frederf]

What side is the Flying Dutchmen coded on? Is she axis or allied?

[ETR3(SS)]

She is neither Axis nor Allied nor Neutral. The Dutchman is on her own side. :arrgh!:

[Armistead]

Armistead Do you mean like this one? :D :D



Saw her again today, about 75 Nm. South of the first two sightings.
Led me to a very nice convoy, I got two ships down so far for about 14,000 tons. :yeah:

Magic

Oh gee haw, you'll go to any extreme to prove it exists....

[G2B]

So where exactly is this ship seen and if you have the radio on does it start playing Wagner :hmmm:

[floundericiousWA]

So where exactly is this ship seen and if you have the radio on does it start playing Wagner :hmmm:

Now THAT would be a top notch touch!

[peabody]

She is neither Axis nor Allied nor Neutral. The Dutchman is on her own side. :arrgh!:

Actually the Flying Dutchman is NOT neutral, it is at this very moment in Immortal combat against other "Ghost Ships of the Line". .......Forever:arrgh!:

If you meet them, I suggest you look away.:dead:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4601/shipsoftheline.jpg

Peabody

[magic452]

G2B most often seen in the Luzon Straight. In this encounter I've seen her 5 times now, all within a few days and about 75 nm. She's off the northern tip of Luzon near the small islands on the west side. End of Feb., first of March. 43

Magic

[G2B]

Thanks Magic452, The Luzon Straights can be a large area to cover if one is looking for a Ghost Ship. One other question, Does the Dutchman have any effect on crew morale?

[magic452]

Well she sure boosted my moral but I didn't notice any improvement with the crew. interesting though, I'll check it out.

Magic

[Akula4745]

Actually the Flying Dutchman is NOT neutral, it is at this very moment in Immortal combat against other "Ghost Ships of the Line". .......Forever:arrgh!:

If you meet them, I suggest you look away.:dead:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4601/shipsoftheline.jpg

Peabody


Peabody has creditable Photoshop skills... <G>

[peabody]

Peabody has creditable Photoshop skills... <G>

Actually that is a screenshot right out of the game.

Peabody

[Ivan H]

Hi all,

I bumped into the Dutchman just under the letter "t" in Luzon straight on the map.

My bridge crew immeadiatly cleared the deck and would not come back up no matter how many times I dived and surfaced. In the end CO2 went to 100% (even though I was surfaced) and I was forced to abandon the game and restart from my last save point.

Seems the Dutchman scared my crew silly.

BTW couldn't do any damage with the deck gun when I tried (had to man it myself!).

Ivan.

[Zilch]

Actually that is a screenshot right out of the game.

Peabody

Is that for reals?

[Arsenius]

Is that for reals?
is the Flying Dutchman

[SgtPotato]

http://theeulobby.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/davy-jones.jpg

Do you fear Death?

[Akula4745]

Actually that is a screenshot right out of the game.

Where in the world did you find this action, Peabody?

[keltos01]

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1434/nfdl.jpg (http://img169.imageshack.us/i/nfdl.jpg/)


she's for real trust me : someone asked me a whiel back to make her playable too, she's under NFD in the ships.

you can look at her using S3D if you can't see her ingame :har:

she has canons and all.

keltos

[Arsenius]

how it reacts in intimate contact with guns and torpedos?:88)

[Akula4745]

Keltos - I know the Dutchman is in the game... I had just never seen it lined up with other similar ships in a running battle (like Peabody's image). I assumed (wrongly) he had photoshopped the image...

[SteamWake]

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr4.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr5.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr6.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr3.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr8.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Yarr1.jpg

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Animal_28929.jpg

Happy Halloween ! from the skipper of the Flying Dutchman.