The Flying Dutchman is a fictional ghost ship drawn by Mark Hitchler and commanded by Davy Jones which appears in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Its name and origin is taken from the old sea legend of the Flying Dutchman. However there are significant differences between the legendary Flying Dutchman and the one seen in the film.
The look of the ship was inspired by the seventeenth century Dutch "fluyts" vessels and the Vasa, a Swedish warship which sank in 1628. However, the ship itself resembles a sailfish. It is covered in seaweed, shells, and many plants, probably from the ship's ability to dive into the sea. The ship is heavily armed with forty-eight cannons and two triple rotating cannons, as well as the ability to summon and control the legendary leviathan, the Kraken. The Kraken is summoned by the Flying Dutchman's large rotating wheel and when fully rotated, it releases a frequency throughout the ocean depths, awakening the Kraken. It is said whoever controls the Flying Dutchman will control the seas.