The crew of The Flying Dutchman are characters intended to have appeared in the Haunted Mansion.
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Background[]
Folklore[]
The Flying Dutchman is an infamous ghost-ship from nautical folklore, said to bring storms and impending doom. One origin story is that it was a trading ship for the East-India Trading company captained by one Captain Hendrick van der Decken who tried to sail through a storm off the cape of Good Hope only to kill his crew with the ship becoming a ghost-vessel bound to the sea. Another story is that the captain was one Bernard or Barend Fokke who sold his soul to the devil so that the Dutchman would have paranormal speed but as a result it was lost in a storm, either by the will of Hell or God.
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, it is explained that the Dutchman was intended to ferry the souls of those who die at sea to the afterlife. It is captained by one Davy Jones who was given it by his lover Calypso, the goddess of the sea. The condition of the vessel being that the captain can never step foot on dry land except for one single day every ten years. After being abandoned by Calypso, Jones corrupted the ship's purpose resulting in him and the crew being turned into monsters resembling sea-life. Jones used the ship to go about making faustian-bargains to have sailors bound their souls to his vessel to serve as his indentured, immortal crew.
At the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Davy Jones would be killed by the pirates Captain Jack Sparrow and William Turner with William becoming the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. Under his command, the ship would be restored to its purpose and its crew returned to natural forms as they ferried the souls of those killed at sea.
Notable members[]
Folklore[]
- Captain Hendrick van der Decken:
- Captain Bernard/Barend Fokke:
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
- Davy Jones (formerly): Davy Jones is the infamous devil of the sea who corrupted the Dutchman's purpose after having been betrayed by his lover and mistress Calypso. He would come to be killed by Jack Sparrow and William Turner.
- Captain William Turner, Jr.: A blacksmith-turned-pirate, Will Turner was the son of pirate Bootstrap Bill Turner and became an accomplice to Captain Jack Sparrow. When Turner was stabbed in the heart by Davy Jones, Jack propped Will's dead hand to stab the heart of Davy Jones which made Will return from death as captain of the Flying Dutchman
- Maccus: The first-mate of Davy Jones was a cruel pirate known as Maccus who resembled a humanoid hammerhead shark with many lobster elements.
- William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Sr.: The father of William Turner who was a crew-mate of the Black Pearl under Captain Jack Sparrow. He was a reluctant member of Barbossa's mutiny of Jack on their voyage to find the cursed Aztec gold of Isla de Muerta. After being cursed with undead immortality, the crew of the Black Pearl punished Bootstrap for sympathizing with Jack by strapping his bootstraps to a cannon and throwing him overboard. After days of sinking he was offered freedom aboard the Dutchman by Davy Jones and later chose to remain on the ship to assist his son William.
Appearances[]
The Haunted Mansion[]
Unused[]
The crew of the Flying Dutchman was planned by Marc Davis to appear in the Haunted Mansion. This would have been in an extended version of the Flying Dutchman's Changing Portrait in-which the ghosts of its crew would have flown out while the ship wrecked itself. Even in Phantom Manor which based its original portrait on Marc Davis' slowly morphing designs, the crew of the Dutchman would go unrepresented.
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
From 2006-2018, Davy Jones made an appearance in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. His face appeared on a waterfall in the grottos of Isla Tesoro, sometimes interchanging with that of Blackbeard depending on the incarnation while giving riders ominous warnings about the cursed treasure and haunted island. It should be noted that Davy Jones was mentioned by characters such as Blackbeard, Captain X, Barbossa and Redd but that was not necessarily in-reference to his literal film-continuity depiction as Captain of the Dutchman but rather using his name as a euphemism for a watery grave.
In 2018 the Davy Jones effect was removed from the ride, supposedly as a means of reintegrating audio by Paul Frees after they removed one of the last remnants of his dialogue in the attraction and wanted to keep him in. In 2017, Disneyland Paris added the Davy Jones waterfall as part of the same refurbishment.
Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island[]
There are a few references to the crew of the Flying Dutchman in this attraction. In Pirate's Den there is a shipwreck filled with barnacles and coral with the ship being implied to have been wrecked by Jones' pet, The Kraken. While in Pirate's Den, the voices of ghosts possibly representing the Dutchman's crew can be heard amongst the paranormal sea-life.
Around the Landing area, there is a blacksmith shop belonging to, "W. Turner" (William Turner) who was the captain of the Dutchman succeeding Davy Jones. In Dead Man's Grotto, the Dead Man's Chest appears, this chest containing the heart of the Flying Dutchman's captain. When touched, the laughing of Davy Jones can be heard but considering the timeline of the attraction being set in the 19th century it is more likely that the heart within belongs to Will Turner and that Jones' laughing is at his killer bearing the same curse that he did.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure[]
In this attraction, Jack Sparrow goes about robbing Davy Jones of, "The Sunken Treasure", a large sum of gold and jewels seemingly taken from shipwrecks across the ocean floor. When guests journey through the ocean floor they encounter three notable members of the Dutchman's crew. First they encounter two guards made of coral and later Jones' first-mate Maccus who sends them to Davy Jones' cabin. When in the cabin, guests come face-to-face with Davy Jones himself before he raises a fleet of pirate ships from the depths to fight Jack and retrieve his gold.
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