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"SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN-DELI DIRECT,
22nd May, 1824.
1st Class Fare to Singapore-$100.
This vessel offers excellent saloon accommodation.
All lower berths.
English cuisine:
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 19TH, 1924
THE PHANTOM SHIP.
ORIGIN OF THE LEGEND
WEATHER REPORT
May 14th 1810-Promture has considerably at Cheforsed moderate orer S. Japan. It has decreased, slightly at all other reporting stations except Shanghai, where at The anticyclone osir Japan has moret esat small ingrene i Monte
All beliefs, however extraordinary and bizarre they may be, have some founding tion they do not spring apontaneously into the minds of a number of people, but
Adep
depression based eastward from N wory frequently have their origin in some - China, and ato jan more or less prosaic facts in fact which i tri neer the
• gn, this afterion was een
Yellow Smt..
in the course of time has become distort-. Hongkong minfall for the hounding a ed or surrounded in legend in the curso 18 hours, May 14th, 002 luch. Total-ice of being passed on frem one generation January 18, 120 inches, nghinh an average to another. M
of ed inches
To a sailorman, writes Captain. Leslie Cobb, H.N.B, the Tecily Telegraph.Hour, Mar toch in d
naturally one of the most interesting-of-
The forcast for the 24 hours eading at 18
DISTRICT
the world's curious traditions is that ran Forms Channel cerning the ་་ phantom ship,”":"u sailing
vessel of ancient type which with ghost-
cratej
ly crew appears a herald of doom to real Hongkong to Gap Rock Swini, molerater ships and real men going about the senso
on their lawful occasions.
fair-toshowery.
HONGKONGANETEOROLOGICAL REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, May 14th,
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The present generation has obtained its South coast of China between idea of the historie phantom ship mostly.ongkong and Lamocks
think, from the book of Captain Mar ryut, The Flying Dutchman, in which South coast of Chins between one Vander Decken is condemned to sail
Hongkong and Hainan a_dead_mun," with a crew of dead men until the falling of a curse. The belief in u wandering ship condemned to sail the seas for ever, is, however, far older. than the Flying Dutchman, and is reli- gious in origin. To understand thorough- ly the idea surrounding the belief in the phantom ship one must go back to early mythologies. No matter what part of the world is investigated, every ruce will be found to have old tales of deathless heroes and their enemies. As familiar examples there are Odin, King Arthur, Charle magne na undying heroes, and the Wan dering few as an opposite. With the latter can be classed the Wild Huntsman Here the Hunter) and the Flying Dutchman,
Soldiers, farmers, ecclesiasties, ssaien all had their individual ideas of good and evil beings destined to exist eternally and work out their fates, whether, good or evils.
THE FLYING DUTERMAN, Careful investigation has not discover ed why Intez days upon the sea have fastened the Dutch nationality on to the phantom ship which was believed in hun dreds, possibly thousands of years before
Day at tpm 6am. 2.p.m.
at
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87.
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Barometer a Temperature Humidity Wind Direction...
For Weather... Rain
·9,00. 0.00 Hightest open-air Temperature on 19th Lowest open-air Temperature on 14th
HONGKONG "TIDE "TABLE..
From May 15th to 21st, 1924. HIGH WATER.
Days of
H-Long
Standard
Tume.
the Dutch became. a people or earned rur. 15 m 44 lame upon the waters. The theory that
seems to be the most likely is that Bri Fri tish seamen had a habit of referring to
1. nr.
all foreigners as Dutchmen daring the Satur. 17 im time of Dutch- supremacy at sea, and it `was-and" is now I ani afraid to say-an | Sun. 18 B occasional habit of certain foreigners" to fail callonely past ships in distrcas
-Mon. 19
Tues. 20 Įra
8 59
Height,
Low WATER
"Hong-
Standard
b. 14.
VESSELS EXPECTED,
Height
It is possible from this to see how the belief in the phantom ship as a herald-of doom has arisen. A ship in distress, wal- Wed 21 m 10:49 77 lowing helplessly amidst seas which work their will on her, sees a luckier vessel Join up out of the darkness She flies past eyes peer over her bulwarks at the suffering seamen, no attempt is made to abortda sailor" to stand by and give assistance. For few seconds abe isama Jura (SK), die May 18th visible amidst the welter of spray and the gloom then she is gone
Those who have seen her cannot be lieve their followmen so callous as to desert them in their hour of ñced. No
human being could pass by men in such distress. It is the phantom ship they say, and the following shipwreck is heralded by her appearance,
Hencente (Ben Line), due May 10th. Connolly (lần), dục hay anh v clo (Blut Funnel); dud May 31st. Demodoens (Blue Funnel), due June 7th. Empress of Hussin due May 20th, a p.m. Hindenburg (Hugo Stinne), due May finger (P&O), due May 17th 6. a m
(Bite Funnel), due May 23rd. tor (Blur Furnel), due to day. Such things have happened, but I must Patrick Henty (P.M.), dne May 16th. confess it is a gross libel to attributorent Hayre (Dollar Liner), due June them to the Dutch who have ever prøved.
President Harrison (Dollar), dus May themselves valiant sailors.
Freedent McKinter
(Admiral Orienta3), due. Mar. 17th
S Side (P&0.), due to-day. Slavie Prince que May 16th, Teng Jaru, duo, May 25t
due.
SHIPPING NOTES.
A LOCAL BEČIKEN. Belief in the existence of a phantom ship on the sea generally is followed by belief in local apparitions. Just as Cain, Judas, igene the Hunter, and the Wan dering Jew are different versions of one belief. so in various Waters there is helief in different phantom ships,
Silk forwarded from here by Empress Van der Decken is supposed to be of Australl on the 18th April arrived. trying eternally to round the. Horn - in in New York on the 12th May having been Polynesia there is belief in a phantom. 24 days in transit. steamer, wrecked with a cargo of gold not so many years ago, the Indian Ocean contains two ghostly vessels is beralus |of shipwreck "Greek waters are said to held many, and the ancient battle of Salamis is supposed to be re-enacted by -nupernatural men and ships. Dangerous
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shipwrecks have their legends, and, an example, we bave, near at home, a phan- tom ship of the Goodwin Sands. This takes the form of a galleon, apparently a Spaniard, those who have seen it say that she drives up Channel into the welter of foam breaking over the Sands, strikes, and goes to pieces whilst the booming of berguna calling for assistance can be heard above the roar of the wind
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ANCIENT WOODEN BATTLESHIP.
The ancient wooden battleship Enures -formerly the Barng-renched Apple- dore, in Devon, recently after a very stormy jassage from the Clyde
She had come to seek her last resting place in a shipbreaker'a yard almost within hail of the very port from which sailed the first and inost illustrious wax, ship of her name. It was from Bide ford in. Deron that Sir Richard Gren ville sailed in his little Herenge to uphold- |-time-honour-of-England-off Klores-in-the-
The last of the wooden warships of that famous name has returned to Devon, her usefulness as a training ship for young Scottish sailors having passed. Sho was brought from the Clyde by i tug. When she reached the bar of Appledore River there set out to meet her pilots who had among them ons who had just left his. erndle when, at Penisroke in 1889, the "Herenge was inunched He, took charge and got her across the treacherous shoals to her Just Jerth
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