Goast Ship-- kinda fun

[SNAKE1937]

Off of both PI and Formosa I saw a Three masted Gallion with green haze arround it. It was called an Enemy Ship but had a Blue ( friendly) ship ID.

Is this a Artifect or someones idea of a joKe?

Having Fun,


SNAKE1937

[razark]

It's not really there. You must have had something in your eye. Probably been at sea for too long, as well.

I'm sure someone will be along to claim it was the Flying Dutchman, and that it was put in by the developers as an easter egg. They may even try and show you some screen shots.

Don't believe them though. It doesn't really exist. All the screen shots are photoshopped. It's just as fake as the Yamato, Japanese carriers, and 1944-45 in the campaign.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by razark

It's not really there. You must have had something in your eye. Probably been at sea for too long, as well.

I'm sure someone will be along to claim it was the Flying Dutchman, and that it was put in by the developers as an easter egg. They may even try and show you some screen shots.

Don't believe them though. It doesn't really exist. All the screen shots are photoshopped. It's just as fake as the Yamato, Japanese carriers, and 1944-45 in the campaign.

Umm, this is SH4, not SH5.

[TBear]

hmmmmm......

well i am a beliver













I did get damegde messages, but was so baffled at the time i didnt check. I recall it had something to do with the distance, to close it fired. But cant say solid that i recived damegde, but i did get the messages....this is werry oooooooold screeeens

the truth is out there

LTbear

[razark]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Umm, this is SH4, not SH5.

I'll deny the existence of SH5, too.

Edit:
Ooooh! Look at the pretty pictures of a u-boat at sunrise. But what's with the last one? The one of the empty ocean?




If it fires at you, does it actually do any damage?

[TBear]

the normal story Flying Dutchman

She was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago. Her master***8217;s name was Van der Decken. He was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of the devil. For all that, never a sailor under him had reason to complain; though how it is on board with them nobody knows. The story is this: that in doubling the Cape they were a long day trying to weather the Table Bay. However, the wind headed them, and went against them more and more, and Van der Decken walked the deck, swearing at the wind. Just after sunset a vessel spoke him, asking him if he did not mean to go into the bay that night. Van der Decken replied: ***8216;May I be eternally damned if I do, though I should beat about here till the day of judgment. And to be sure, he never did go into that bay, for it is believed that he continues to beat about in these seas still, and will do so long enough. This vessel is never seen but with foul weather along with her

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Here we run into the first problem, this ship mentioned is a schooner, not a galleon.

list of known ghost ships.

Undated: The Caleuche is a mythical ghost ship which, according to local folklore and Chilota mythology, sails the seas around Chiloé Island, Chile, at night.
1748: The Lady Lovibond is said to have been deliberately wrecked on Goodwin Sands on 13 February and to reappear off the Kent coast every fifty years.
1795 onwards: The Flying Dutchman, a ship manned by a captain condemned to eternally sail the seas, has long been the principle ghost ship legend among mariners and has inspired several works.
1858 onwards: The Eliza Battle, a paddle steamer that burned in 1858 on the Tombigbee River in Alabama, is purported to reappear, fully aflame, on cold and windy winter nights to foretell of impending disaster.

So we have a problem, no Galleon is mentioned as ghost ship.

So we have to dig abit deeper.

As pr visual we cant deffently so the spansih lines of the hull





Unfortently this leaves us with a problem, simply the pretty huge numbers of these ships used. So we have to check history for storys about Galleons that could have been used by people who where not countet as persons of god.

Pirates wouldnt use the Galleon since it was simply to slow to be of any use. So we have to look at specifics.

Galleons, treasure ships for the spanish. Spanish was not nice to south americans, maby we can look there.

In 1532 at the Battle of Cajamarca a group of Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their indigenous Andean Indian auxiliaries native allies ambushed and captured the Emperor Atahualpa of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas. In the following years Spain extended its rule over the Empire of the Inca civilization.



unfortently i cant find any information that will leade to more discoverys concerning this. The ghost ship are a Spanish Galleon, it is likely it have something to do with the Spanish conquest, but then the trail runs cold.

the truth is out there

LTbear

[TBear]

i might have found a candidate

La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion struck the Los Abrojos reef, 60 miles north of Haiti after being severely damaged in a hurricane in 1659. Her cargo: one hundred tons of silver and gold coin and bullion.

There is a tale about this ship. In the 1660`s a british man salvaged gold for 300.000 £ In todays money that would be millions. The devil felt so cheatet by this man acts that he ordered the ship to sail forever in shame of loosing the devils gold....

the truth is out there

LTbear

[magic452]

Good post there Tbear.

Magic

[Daniel Prates]

I'm still taking the side of Wagner's version of the Hollander:

[Sandman_28054]

Tis a curse upon you!