Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman' was a legendary ghostly sailing ship, said to be captained by Hendrick Van der Decken.

In one universe, the ship, a “three-masted fluyts”, became cursed to sail forever after the captain swore a “mighty oath” to “the storm and to any god that would listen” that he would “round the Cape if it took [him until the Last Day”. Death visited the ship, but, seeing that “everyone was very busy”, she left without collecting them. Subsequently, maintained in a cursed immortality by the oath, unable to return to port, the Captain and crew kept sailing for centuries. Eventually, however, a far-future version of Death went back in time with Jenny Everywhere, having figured out a way out of their curse with Jenny's help: because Van der Decken's oath did not specify the end of which world the time-limit would be set to, they could end the curse by sailing the Dutchman out of the universe and into some other dimension that was just about to be destroyed. Though very confused, Van der Decken agreed to let Jenny take the wheel to sail the ship across dimensions. (PROSE: Storm's End)