Flying Dutchman (disambiguation)

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The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship.

Flying Dutchman may also refer to:

Transportation

• Flying Dutchman (train), a Great Western Railway (GWR) express passenger train service that ran from 1849 until 1892
• Flying Dutchman, a GWR 3031 Class steam locomotive, built in 1892 and withdrawn from service in 1912
• Flying Dutchman Funicular, an inclined railway at Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
• Flying Dutchman (sternwheeler), a 19th-century Canadian trading vessel

Fiction

• Flying Dutchman (Pirates of the Caribbean), ghost ship in the films Dead Man's Chest and At World's End
• The Flying Dutchman (1995 film), a 1995 Dutch comedy
• The Flying Dutchman (1957 film), a 1957 Dutch biographical film
• The Flying Dutchman, a silent 1923 film
• The Flying Dutchman (novel), by Michael Arlen
• Flying Dutchman (SpongeBob SquarePants), character in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants

Music

• The Flying Dutchman (opera), originally Der fliegende Holländer, an 1843 opera based on the legend, by Richard Wagner
• Flying Dutchman Records, a jazz record label
• The Flying Dutchman, a 2005 album by André Rieu
• "Flying Dutchman", a song from Jethro Tull's 1979 album Stormwatch
• "Flying Dutchman", a 1992 song by Tori Amos, B-side to China

Nickname

Flying Dutchmen is or was a nickname of:

People

• The Flying Dutchman (nickname), a list of people

Other

• Guilderland High School in Guilderland Center, New York, US
• Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, US, until 2004
• Hope College in Holland, Michigan, US
• Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, US

Astronomy

• 90377 Sedna Trans-Neptunian object discovered in 2003

Other uses

• Flying Dutchman, name given to a drift bottle that traveled 16,000 miles (1929–1935)
• Flying Dutchman, KLM frequent flyer program, now merged into the Flying Blue program
• Flying Dutchman (dinghy), a high-performance racing sailboat class
• Flying Dutchman (Efteling), a roller coaster in the Efteling amusement park, Netherlands
• The Flying Dutchman (horse) (1846–1870), English thoroughbred racehorse and sire
• Flying Dutchman (pigeon), a pigeon who received the Dickin Medal in 1945
• Flying Dutchman (tobacco), for pipes distributed by Royal Theodorus Niemeyer Ltd., a Dutch company
• Flying Dutchman (De Vliegende Hollander), the apparent name for a KLM DC-3 aircraft which flew to Melbourne with callsign PH-LKT for the 1956 Summer Olympics

See also

• Dennis Bergkamp (born 1969), aerophobic Dutch footballer nicknamed the "Non-Flying Dutchman"
• Robin van Persie's goal over Spain in Spain vs Netherlands in 2014 FIFA World Cup is regarded as the "Flying Dutchman" goal
• Frying Dutchman (disambiguation)