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11-14-07, 01:15 AM | #1 |
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The Flying Dutchman
Okay had a radar contact on this and when I saw it I laughed - it is ghost ship moving at high speed looks like the flying dutchman - anyone else ever see it?
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11-14-07, 01:25 AM | #2 |
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Better check your equipment. How do you get radar contact with a ghostly apparition?
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11-14-07, 10:23 AM | #3 |
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Yep, I have some screenshots of me in the Luzon Straight with the Flying Dutchman on my tail.
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11-14-07, 10:36 AM | #4 |
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I have never seen it.:hmm:
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11-14-07, 10:40 AM | #5 |
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Elder-Pirate had posted this pic in an earlier thread. Have not seen it myself.
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11-14-07, 02:07 PM | #6 |
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Not met it yet.
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04-16-12, 05:14 PM | #7 |
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12-18-11, 04:15 PM | #8 |
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followed it
It's funny how I found it in the Luzon strait (As Always). I Happen to use a mod where you have a modern submarine, Top speed 36 knots. I don't remember the exact speed of this ghost ship, but it was something around 35 as I barely caught up with it with full speed. Strange how it suddenly disappeared...
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12-18-11, 04:29 PM | #9 | |
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12-19-11, 02:17 AM | #10 |
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I have it in my sights.
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; however my deck gun is taking too long to load, so I will probably just be able to wave as it sails by.
Note: First shot with deck gun was short. But I got two more shots off at a range of 2,000 yds with the deck gun. Both passed through the target. It is moving away in a northerly/easterly direction at 23.5 kts. It is real. Last edited by I'm goin' down; 12-20-11 at 04:46 PM. |
12-29-11, 07:48 PM | #11 |
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And now you can build a model of it, and it glows in the dark as well!
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03-25-12, 03:31 AM | #12 |
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None of the posts, except the brilliant one above, provide the coordinates for an intercept. Posting intercept information will aid others.
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03-30-12, 02:21 PM | #13 |
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I wonder....
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?
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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
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http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/fo...20Ghost%20Ship
Stock SH4 1.4, I am encountering this Blue-Green shimmering Ghost Ship January 17, 1942, nearing sundown, it trails red blood in its wake. It is under attack by 3 Japanese ships and 1 plane and firing back. It is following me at my surface flank speed of 18 knots near 21'9"N, 122'21"E, just north of the islands north of Luzon in the Luzon Straits. It has chased and scared my crew pretty badly, and we were running crazy to get away for a long time. Later in the night, out of torpedoes on the way back to base to refit, we barely survived a Japanese attack, but they amazingly depth charged themselves in shallow waters! Go figure . . . http://s1068.photobucket.com/user/fo...20Ghost%20Ship Quote:
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