The possessed dutchman

before the era of the man made machines like gerinces mechanikus and garra, there was the captain of a vessel and his crew where battling another ship, they sadly lost and the ship sank with the captain and crew. After many years, the ship changed more and more, now looking like some animal using the ship as armor. It turns out that the captain was not willing to die, and so his soul remained in the ship, eventually possessing it slowly but surely. Too this day he swims around the oceans looking for that ship and its crew unaware that years have past and that his foes are long deceased