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Readers who enjoy ghost legends, storms at sea and ships under sail will find plenty here. It suits anyone who likes a brave hero and a daring heroine.
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What would you do if your dying mother told you that your father is neither alive nor dead? In the Dutch town of Terneuse, a young man named Philip Vanderdecken hears exactly that. His father, a sea captain, swore a terrible oath off the Cape of Good Hope and now sails on, cursed, until the Day of Judgment.
The Phantom Ship was written by Frederick Marryat, a former naval officer turned novelist. He built it on the old sea legend of the Flying Dutchman. You get a ghost story, a love story, a tale of shipwreck and a sharp look at greed, faith and fate, with a surprising streak of humour.
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- 1A dying mother hands her son a curseFree
- 2The sealed room gives up its letter
- 3A night of gunfire brings Philip a wife
- 4Love, a marriage and a one-eyed messenger
- 5The Ter Schilling meets the Phantom Ship
- 6Poison, priests and a dream of a shell
- 7Fire, mutiny and a ship that sails over rocks
- 8Duty, destiny and the argument over faith
- 9Greed is the real monster of the book
- 10A legend told with humour, speed and dread
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A dying mother hands her son a curse
The story opens in a neat cottage near Terneuse. Philip Vanderdecken, nineteen and powerfully built, wants to go to sea with his uncle, because the family is close to starving. His widowed mother begs him to stay. She will not say why, and the front parlor has been sealed for almost seventeen years.
Pressed by Philip, she collapses. The miserly doctor Poots says she has a day or two at most, and in the same breath asks who will pay his fee.
In her last night she tells the secret. Seventeen years ago her husband came through the window in a gale, cold as ice. He said he was neither dead nor alive. Off the Cape he had blasphemed and struck a pilot who drowned. Then he swore on the relic of the Holy Cross, which she wears, to round the Cape even if he must sail until Judgment Day. The oath was answered in thunder and flame, and he left a sealed letter on the table.
A secret kept for years can become the inheritance that shapes a whole life.
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Questions about Das Phantomschiff
What is The Phantom Ship about?
It follows Philip Vanderdecken, a young Dutchman who learns his father is cursed to sail the seas as the Flying Dutchman. Philip swears to free him and travels the East Indies with his wife Amine.
Who is the Flying Dutchman in the book?
The Flying Dutchman is the Phantom Ship, commanded by Philip's father, who swore a reckless oath off the Cape of Good Hope. Sailors who meet the ship meet trouble soon after.
What is the relic Philip carries?
The relic is a fragment of the Holy Cross in a gold frame. Philip's father swore his fatal oath on it, and the letter says that kissing it on his ship could end his doom.
Is The Phantom Ship based on a true story?
No, it is fiction built on the old sailors' legend of the Flying Dutchman. Frederick Marryat wrote it in the nineteenth century and set it in the seventeenth, in the age of Dutch trade.
Is The Phantom Ship worth reading?
Readers find a lively mix of ghost story, sea adventure and romance, with short chapters, humour, a strong heroine and vivid wrecks and battles. It offers a sailor's view of the age of sail.
Cite this edition
Marryat, Frederick. The Phantom Ship. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-phantom-ship.
Marryat, F. (2026). The phantom ship. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-phantom-ship (Original work published 1839)
Marryat, Frederick. The Phantom Ship. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-phantom-ship.
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author = {Marryat, Frederick},
title = {The Phantom Ship},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-phantom-ship},
note = {First published 1839}
}
