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'''Davy Jones' Locker''' is an [[idiom]] for the bottom of the sea &mdash; the resting place of drowned [[sailors]]. It is used as a [[euphemism]] for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker");<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Davy Jones's Locker | work = Bartleby.com | publisher = The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.| date = [[2000-01-01]] | url = http://www.bartleby.com/61/29/D0042900.html| accessdate = 2006-07-16 }}</ref> '''Davy Jones''' is a nickname for what would be the [[devil]] of the seas. The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including incompetent sailors, a pub owner who kidnapped sailors, or that Davy Jones is another name for the devil - as in, "Devil Jonah."

{{other uses|Davy Jones' Locker (disambiguation)}}

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| caption = ''Davy Jones' Locker'', by [[John Tenniel]], 1892

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[[File:Davy Jones by George Cruikshank.png|thumb|Davy Jones pictured by [[George Cruikshank]] in 1832, as described by [[Tobias Smollett]] in ''[[The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle]].''<ref>However, the depicted character is a fake created by Pipes, Perry and Pickle to scare Mr. Trunnion; see: {{cite book |title= The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle|last= Smollett|first= Tobias|author-link= Tobias Smollett|year= 1751|publisher= D. Wilson|___location= London|page= 66}}</ref>]]

The reputation of Jones and his locker has been widespread among sailors since its popularization since the 1800's and nautical traditions have been created around them. They have become popular in the broader culture, and even today they are considered modern maritime vocabulary.

'''Davy Jones' locker''' is a [[metaphor]] for the oceanic [[abyss (religion)|abyss]], the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a [[euphemism]] for [[drowning]] or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be ''sent to Davy Jones' Locker'').

First used in print in 1726, the name '''Davy Jones'''' origins are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a "ghost of [[Jonah]]". Other explanations of this [[Sailors' superstitions|nautical superstition]] have been put forth, including an incompetent sailor or a pub owner who kidnapped sailors.

==Origin==

===Literature===

[[Daniel Defoe]] mentions the phrase in his [[1726]] book "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts": "Heaving the rest into David Jones' locker, i.e. the sea." It appears not to have yet taken on the later connotations of misfortune.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones's Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url =http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/1073312401.html?dids=1073312401:1073312401&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+7%2C+2006&author=SUSAN+DUNNE&pub=%5BSTATEWIDE+Edition%5D%3B+Hartford+Courant&edition=&startpage=D.1&desc=DAVY+JONES%27+LEGACY|d accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref>

==History==

The earliest known reference to Davy Jones's negative connotation occurs in ''[[The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle]]'' by [[Tobias Smollett]], published in [[1751]]:

The earliest known reference of the negative connotation of Davy Jones occurs in ''The Four Years Voyages of [[George Roberts (mariner)|Capt. George Roberts]]'', attributed to [[Daniel Defoe]] (but potentially involving the journal of a real [[George Roberts (mariner)|George Roberts]]), published in 1726 in London.<ref name="Green's Dictionary of Slang">{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Jonathan |title=Davy Jones's locker, n. — Green's Dictionary of Slang |url=https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/bymlveq |website=greensdictofslang.com |publisher=Chambers |access-date=3 October 2024}}</ref>

:This same Davy Jones, according to sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.<ref name="fable">{{cite web | last = Brewer| first =E. Cobham | title = Davy Jones’ Locker. | work = Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | date = [[1898-01-01]]| url = http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html| accessdate = 2006-04-30 }}</ref>

{{blockquote|Some of Loe's Company said, They would look out some things, and give me along with me when I was going away; but Russel told them, they should not, for he would toss them all into Davy Jones's Locker if they did.<ref name="Four Years">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89|page=89|title=The four years voyages of capt. George Roberts. Written by himself|last=Defoe|first=Daniel|year=1726}}</ref>|}}

Jones is described in the same story as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.<ref name="courant"/>

And elsewhere in ''The Four Years Voyages'':

In 1824 [[Washington Irving]] mentions Jones' name in his "Adventures of the Black Fisherman":

:He came, said he, in a storm, and he went in a storm; he came in the night, and he went in the night; he came nobody knows whence, and he has gone nobody knows where. For aught I know he has gone to sea once more on his chest, and may land to bother some people on the other side of the world; though it is a thousand pities, added he, if he has gone to Davy Jones's locker.<ref name="courant"/>

{{blockquote|But now they had no Goods at all, he believed, having disposed of them all, either by giving them to other Prizes, &c. or heaving the rest into David Jones's Locker (i.e. the Sea).<ref name="Four Years" />}}

[[Herman Melville]] mentions Jones in ''[[Moby-Dick]]'': "There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from the whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones." In [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s 1883 novel ''[[Treasure Island]]'', Davy Jones is mentioned throughout the story, for example in the phrase "in the name of Davy Jones". In [[J. M. Barrie]]'s novel of ''[[Peter Pan]]'', Captain Hook sings a song: "Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky plank, You walks along it so, Till it goes down and you goes down To Davy Jones below!"

===Proposed origins of the tale===

===Theories===

The origin of the tale of Davy Jones is unclear, and many conjectural<ref name="slang">{{cite book|last1=Farmer|first1=John S|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUYVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA129|title=A Dictionary of slang and Colloquial English|last2=Henley|first2=William Ernest|year=1927|pages=128–129}}</ref> or folkloric<ref name="mq">{{cite web|author=Michael Quinion|year=1999|title=World Wide Words|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dav1.htm|access-date=15 January 2013}}</ref> explanations have been told:

The exact origin of "Davy Jones" is unclear, and many explanations have been proposed. David Jones was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the [[1630]]s,<ref>{{cite book| last = Rogoziński | first =Jan | ___location = Hertfordshire| title = The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates | id = ISBN 1-85326-384-2| date = [[1997-01-01]]}}</ref> but most scholars agree that he was not renowned enough to gain such lasting global fame. <ref name="courant" /> Sources have cited the British pub owner who is referenced in the [[1594]] song "Jones's Ale is Newe." He may be the same pub owner who supposedly threw drunken sailors into his ale locker and then dumped them onto any passing ship.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones's Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref> He could also be [[Duffer Jones]], a notoriously [[myopic]] sailor who often found himself overboard.<ref name="jones">{{cite book | last = Shay | first =Frank | title = A Sailor's Treasury |publisher= Norton |id = ASIN B0007DNHZ0| accessdate = 2006-07-16 }} Some have said That Davy Jones is satan's jail keeper on the seas. When a wicked sailor died at sea his soul was send to the locker where it would be imprisoned. He was said to walk around as if he was half-asleep, with rusty keys. </ref>

*''[[Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue|The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue]]'' by [[Francis Grose]], written in 1785 and published in 1811, includes the definitions: "DAVID JONES. The devil, the spirit of the sea: called [[Necken]] or [[Draugr]] in the north countries, such as Norway, Denmark, and Sweden" and "DAVID JONES' LOCKER. The sea".<ref name="dotwt">[[Francis Grose|Grose, Francis]]. 1811. ''[https://archive.org/stream/1811dictionaryof05402gut/dcvgr10.txt Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence]'', 10th ed. [[Project Gutenberg]]. Retrieved 2021-11-16.</ref>

Others have suggested more supernatural meanings. Some believe the name came from Welsh sailors who would call upon Saint David for protection in times of mortal danger.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones' Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref> Some also think it is just another name for the [[devil]].<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones's Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref> Some call him Deva, Davy or Taffy, the thief of the evil spirit. Some think [[Jonah]] became the "evil angel" of all sailors, as the biblical story of Jonah involved his shipmates realizing Jonah was an unlucky sailor and cast him overboard. Naturally, sailors of previous centuries would identify more with the beset-upon shipmates of Jonah than with the unfortunate man himself. It is therefore a possibility that "Davy Jones" grew from the root "Devil Jonah" - the devil of the seas. Upon death, a wicked sailor's body supposedly went to Davy Jones's locker (a chest, as lockers were back then), but a holy sailor's soul went to [[Fiddler's Green]].<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones' Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref>

*Written within a foreign affairs segment within the newspaper 'Chester Chronicle' in 1791, the term 'Safe in Davy Jones's locker' was used to convey that a person was lost, therefore to be within Davy Jones's locker was to be lost at sea.<ref>Chester Chronicle - Friday 18 November 1791 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000341/17911118/005/0002</ref>

*The 1870 and 1895 editions of the ''[[Dictionary of Phrase and Fable]]'' connect Davy to the [[West Indies|West-Indian]] ''[[duppy]]'' (''duffy'') and Jones to biblical [[Jonah]]: {{blockquote|''He's gone to Davy Jones' locker'', i.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. ''Locker'', in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and ''duffy'' is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to."|E. Cobham Brewer<ref name="fable"/>}} The reference to ''duppy''/''duffy'' was deleted in later revisions of Brewer's dictionary.

*David Jones, a real [[pirate]], although not a very well-known one, living on the [[Indian Ocean]] in the 1630s.<ref>{{cite book| last = Rogoziński| first = Jan| ___location = Ware, Hertfordshire, UK | title = The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates| isbn = 1-85326-384-2| date = 1997-01-01| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/wordsworthdictio00rogo}}</ref> Charles Grey calls him "a truculent rascal ... to whose activities in covering up the evidence of their misdeeds, Sir William Foster is inclined (wrongly) to attribute the origin of the sea phrase ''Davy Jones's Locker''".<ref name="Grey - Eastern Seas">{{cite book|last1=Grey|first1=Charles|title=Pirates of the eastern seas (1618–1723): a lurid page of history|date=1933|publisher=S. Low, Marston & co., ltd|___location=London |url=http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/documents/1D30004CA384A81381DD3C8F45CAE3B216713B01.html|accessdate=26 June 2017}}</ref>

*Duffer Jones, a notoriously [[myopic]] sailor who often found himself overboard.<ref name="jones">{{cite book|last=Shay|first=Frank|title=A Sailor's Treasury|publisher=Norton|id=ASIN B0007DNHZ0}}</ref>

*A British pub owner who supposedly threw drunken sailors into his ale locker and then gave them to be [[Conscription|drafted]] on any ship.<ref name=mq/>

*Pinkerton attributes its origin to the Biblical Jonah:

{{blockquote|During many years of seafaring life, I have frequently considered the origin of this phrase, and have now arrived at the conclusion that it is derived from the scriptural account of the prophet Jonah. The word 'locker', on board of ship, generally means the place where any particular thing is retained or kept, as "bread locker", "shot locker", "chain locker", &c. In the sublime ode in the second chapter of the Book of Jonah, we find that the prophet, praying for deliverance, described his situation in the following words:—"in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; the depth closed me round about; the earth with her bars was about me". The sea, then, might not be misappropriately termed by a rude mariner, Jonah's locker—that is, the place where Jonah was kept or confined. Jonah's locker, in time, might be readily corrupted to Jones's locker; and Davy, as a very common Welsh accompaniment of the equally Welsh name, Jones, added, the true derivation of the phrase having been forgotten.|source=W. Pinkerton, ''Notes and Queries'': Vol. III, No. 86, page 478, Saturday, June 21. 1851.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Project Gutenberg|date=September 21, 2011|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37496/37496-h/37496-h.htm|via=[[Project Gutenberg]]}}</ref>}}

*The phrase may have been associated with balladeer and clergyman [[David Lloyd (Dean of St Asaph)|David Lloyd]], well known for his nautical adventure ballad ''The Legend of Captain Jones''.<ref name="Lloyd">{{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=David |title=The legend of Captain Jones. : Relating his adventure to sea: his first landing, and strange combat with a mighty bear. His furious battel with his six and thirty men, against the army of eleven kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable sea-fight with six huge gallies of Spain, and nine thousand souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly, his setting at liberty by the Kings command, and return for England |date=1659 |publisher=London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-Yard |___location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/legendofcaptainj00lloy/page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref>

*Linguists consider it most plausible that ''Davy'' was inspired by [[Saint David]] of [[Wales]], whose name was often invoked by Welsh sailors, and ''Jones'' by the Biblical Jonah.<ref>{{cite web|title=August 22, 2014 Word of the Day: Davy Jones's Locker|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/08/22/|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref>

==Positive associations==

===Etymology===

[[File:USS Triton SSRN-586 - Crossing the Equator - Operation Sandblast - 1960.jpg|thumb|[[Line-crossing ceremony|Crossing the equator ceremony]] (with "Davy Jones" with yellow cape and a plunger as sceptre) aboard the {{USS|Triton|SSRN-586|6}}, 24 February 1960 as part of the [[Operation Sandblast]] cruise]]

Davy may come from Duppy, a [[West Indies|West Indian]] term for a malevolent [[ghost]], or from [[Saint David]], also known as Dewi, the [[patron saint]] of [[Wales]], while Jones may have come from the prophet [[Jonah]],<ref name="fable">{{cite web | last = Brewer| first =E. Cobham | title = Davy Jones’s Locker. | work = Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | date = [[1898-01-01]]| url = http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html| accessdate = 2006-04-30 }}</ref> whose story is considered bad luck for sailors. Having said that, "Jones" is of course an extremely common Welsh surname [http://www.data-wales.co.uk/jones.htm], and like other surnames of the same form ("Edwards", "Davies" etc) indicative of Welsh ancestry. As Saint David is the patron saint of Wales the name "Davy Jones" may just indicate the Welsh origin of the legend. Some also believe that the name Davy could come from the word "Daeva" which is an evil spirit in Persian mythology that loves to cause harm and destruction.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones' Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref> There is thought to be some tie between [[John Paul Jones]], who was a popular naval officer in the American Revolutionary War, and Davy Jones. John Paul Jones was said to have murdered a sailor under his command. This is, however, unlikely in the extreme, considering that literary references to Davy Jones occurred well before the American Revolution, as shown in the Defoe quote above.

Not all traditions dealing with Davy Jones are fearful. In traditions associated with sailors [[Line-crossing ceremony|crossing the Equatorial line]], there is a "raucous and rowdy" initiation presided over by those who have crossed the line before, known as shellbacks, or Sons of [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]]. The eldest shellback is called King Neptune, and Davy Jones is to be re-enacted as his first assistant.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvKiBiWKrzMC&q=davy%20jones&pg=PA76|pages=76–79|title=Naval Ceremonies, Customs, and Traditions|isbn=9781557503305|last1=Connell|first1=Royal W|last2=Mack|first2=William P|date=2004-08-01|publisher=Naval Institute Press }}</ref>

===Reputation=Use in media==

{{excessive examples|date=September 2019}}

Jones' reputation causes fear among sailors, and many refuse to discuss Davy Jones in any great detail.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones' Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref> Not all traditions dealing with Davy Jones are fearful. In traditions associated with sailors [[Line-crossing ceremony|crossing the Equatorial line]], there was a "raucous and rowdy" initiation presided over by those who had crossed the line before, known as shellbacks, or Sons of Neptune. The eldest shellback was called King Neptune, and the next eldest was his assistant who was called Davy Jones.<ref name="courant">{{cite web | last = Dunne| first =Susan| title = Davy Jones' Legacy | work = The Hartford Courant | date = [[2006-07-07]]| url = http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-davyjoneslocker.artjul07,0,7310662.story?coll=hc-headlines-life| accessdate = 2006-09-30 }}</ref>

===18th century===

==In popular culture==

After 1726's ''Four Years Voyages'', another early description of Davy Jones occurs in [[Tobias Smollett]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle]]'', published in 1751:<ref name="fable">{{cite web|last=Brewer|first=E. Cobham|date=1898-01-01|title=Davy Jones's Locker.|url=http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html|access-date=2006-04-30|work=Dictionary of Phrase and Fable}}</ref>

===Movies===

{{main|Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)|Davy Jones' Locker (Pirates of the Caribbean)}}

[[Image:piratedavyjones.JPG|thumb|200px|Davy Jones as depicted in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]''.]]

[[Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)|Davy Jones]] is one of the main villains in the films ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]]'' ([[2006]]) and ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]''. He is played by [[Bill Nighy]].

{{blockquote|This same Davy Jones, according to sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, ''perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes'':, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.<ref name="fable"/>|}}

He is portrayed as a mutated cross between a man and an [[octopus]], with a wriggling beard of tentacles, and limbs like those of a [[crustacean]] (an image similar to [[H. P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu]]). The movie also expands upon the origins of Davy Jones. He appears along with his crew of half-human, half-sea creature sailors aboard ''[[The Flying Dutchman]]''. In the movie, the story follows that Davy Jones was once an average sailor who fell in love with a beautiful woman as "changing and harsh and as untameable as the sea." When he could not have her, the pain was so much that he cut out his still-beating heart, and sealed it in a chest, so that he would never have to feel love, compassion or the pain that can come from feeling them again. The locker itself is mentioned by "Bootstrap" Bill Turner ("Then it's the Locker for you!"), presumably indicating the bottom of the sea. In the scriptwriter's commentary on the movie's DVD, one of the writers state that Davy Jones' Locker is not death per se, but spending an eternity with the thing you hate or are afraid of most. For instance [[Jack Sparrow]] is forced to stay in a land comprised entirely of salt, as he loves the open sea. There is a way to get into it (besides being captured by Davy Jones) which is to sail to World's End and travel down a large, deep [[waterfall]]. However, getting back to the living world is more difficult.

In the story, Jones is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.

===Music===

"Davy Jones' Locker" is the song title for [[System 7 (band)|System 7]]'s "The Power of Seven," [[Buckethead]]'s "Bermuda Triangle" and [[Drexciya]]'s "True People: The Detroit Techno Album." The band [[The Ocean Blue]] released a CD entitled "Davy Jones' Locker". The pop-punk/Indie band Kings of Town's first single is called "Davy Jone's Locker", and is inspired by the mysterious, demonic aura that seems to follow Davy Jones.

===19th century===

On the [[Beastie Boys]] album "[[Licensed to Ill]]", the track "Rhymin' & Stealin'" mentions Davy Jones locker with the line "My pistol is loaded - I shot Betty Crocker; Delivered Colonel Sanders down to Davy Jones' locker".

[[File:The Upshot of the Invasion, or Bony in a fair way for Davey's Locker. (caricature), 1804 RMG PU4797.tiff|thumb|1804 print showing "The Upshot of the Invasion, or Bony in a fair way for Davey's Locker"]]

in 1812, a musical pantomime 'Davy Jones's Locker, Or Black ey'd Susan' was performed at London's West End theatre; '''Sans Pareil''', known today as [[Adelphi Theatre]].<ref>Morning Chronicle - Wednesday 30 December 1812 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18121230/005/0003</ref>

===20th century===

[[Iron Maiden]] mentions Davy Jones on their "[[No Prayer for the Dying]]" album, in the song "Run Silent, Run Deep." Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson also includes a double reference to both Davy Jones' Locker and singer Davy Jones of [[The Monkees]] on his song "Dive Dive Dive".

[[File:"Lubbers don't live - Oh learn a lesson from Joe Gotch" - NARA - 514926.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|World War II poster makes reference to Davy Jones's Locker.{{refn | group = n|Caption: Oh learn a lesson from Joe Gotch – Without a lifebelt he stood watch – "Abandon ship" came over the phones – He now resides with Davy Jones}} In nautical jargon, a lubber is a clumsy or inexperienced sailor.<ref>{{cite OED|lubber|id=110780}}j</ref>]]

In the 1930 cartoon "The Haunted Ship", from the [[Aesop's Fables (film series)|''Aesop's Fables'']] series, Davy Jones is depicted as a living skeleton wearing a pirate's [[bicorne]] hat.

[[The Devil Makes Three]] has a song called "The Plank," with a chorus that mentions Davy Jones' Locker: "To all our enemies, we'll see you in hell. We're gonna walk 'em off the plank into the wishing well. Down to Davy Jones' Locker where the fishes sleep. I won't be praying for you so don't be praying for me."

[[Raymond Z. Gallun]]'s 1935 science fiction story "Davey Jones' Ambassador" tells of a deep-sea explorer in his underwater capsule who comes in contact on the seabed with a deep-sea culture of underwater creatures.

Australian [[punk rock|punk]] band [[Frenzal Rhomb]] talk about Davy Jones in their song "Ship of Beers". In the song, the ship of beers that the band are sailing is sinking and they claim "...it won't be long 'till Davy Jones can claim me - hopefully he'll feel like a cleansing ale after all he's only human." This talks about exchanging their souls for a [[beer]].

[[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s 1938 short story "Mailed Through a Porthole", about a doomed freighter, takes the form of a letter addressed to "Mr. David Jones, Esq., Forty Fathoms".

On his album, "[[Food & Liquor]]", rapper [[Lupe Fiasco]] makes mention of Davey Jones' Locker in the song "Pressure" featuring [[Jay-Z]]. He goes on by dropping this line..."The Stones in the pocket will drag em down to Davy Jones' Locker" [http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/l_fiasco/food_and/pressure.lup.txt]

Davy Jones is a character appearing in ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]]'' comics authored by Tom Sims and [[Bela Zaboly]] between 1939 and 1959. He is depicted as a sea spirit who inhabits the bottom of the ocean as well as his Locker, which is located in a sunken ship.

[[Clutch (band)]] makes reference to Davy Jones' Locker at the end of the track "Big News I": "Them bones, them bones, them dry, dry bones. Come down to the locker of Davy Jones."

[[Tom Lehrer]]'s 1953 album [[Songs by Tom Lehrer]] includes the number "The Irish Ballad", in which one of the stanzas contains the lines "She weighted her brother down with stones / And sent him off to Davey Jones."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/ricketyticketytin.html|title=The Irish Ballad / Rickety Tickety Tin [Tom Lehrer]|website=Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music}}</ref>

The song [[Legend Of Davy Jones (Forty Fathoms Deep)]] appeared on the 2006 CD [[Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Swashbuckling Sea Songs]], which was part of a CD/DVD combo pack, packaged with [[Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]], and offered at [[Wal-Mart]] stores.

The 1959 Broadway musical ''Davy Jones' Locker'' with [[Bil Baird]]'s [[marionette]]s had a two-week run at the [[Morosco Theatre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/production/davy-jones-locker-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002430|title=Davy Jones' Locker @ Morosco Theatre|access-date=2016-09-25}}</ref>

In the [[Tom Lehrer]] song Irish Ballad, a violent young girl "Weighted her brother down with stones and sent him off to Davy Jones."

In the television series ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]'' 1967 episode "Hitting The High Seas", the character Davy Jones (played by musician [[Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones]]) receives special treatment while kidnapped in a ship as he claims to be related to "The Original" Davy Jones, his grandfather. The fact that Jones the musician shared a name with the legendary seafarer has itself led to a number of [[pun]]s swapping the two in the decades that followed.{{refn|group = n|Musician [[David Bowie]] performed and recorded as Davy or Davie Jones – Jones being his real surname – before taking on the [[stage name]] [[Bowie knife|Bowie]] to avoid confusion with The Monkees' singer.}}

The frontman of [[Tears for Fears]], [[Roland Orzabal]] makes reference to "Davy Jones' Locker" in track "Don't Drink The Water" of album [[Raoul and the Kings of Spain]]: "... down to Davy Jones's Locker, under the waves ...".

===21st century===

British band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] also refer to Davy Jones in the song Dodo (Abacab, 1981): "... Will the siren team with Davy Jones, and trap him at the bottom of the sea?".

The concept of Davy Jones was combined with the legend of the ''[[Flying Dutchman]]'' in the [[Pirates of the Caribbean film series|''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series]], in which Davy Jones's locker is portrayed as a [[purgatory]] place of punishment for those who crossed [[Davy Jones (character)|Davy Jones]]. Jones is portrayed as a captain assigned to [[Psychopomp|ferry]] those drowned at sea to the afterlife before he corrupted his purpose out of anger at his betrayal by his lover, the sea-goddess [[Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)|Calypso]]. Davy Jones is portrayed as an enigma of the sea, featuring octopus tentacles for a beard and crab claw for a hand.

The phrase has often been referenced comedically in the animated television series ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', particularly by the show's [[List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters#The Flying Dutchman|ghostly personification]] of the Flying Dutchman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brian Doyle-Murray: Flying Dutchman|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0707288/characters/nm0236519 |website=IMDB}}</ref> "Davy Jones's locker" has made occasional appearances in the cartoon as a literal gym [[locker]] used to contain [[souls]] and socks. [[SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One|One episode]] features [[Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones]] from [[The Monkees]] claim ownership of the locker, as a pun on the pop singer's name.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Press |first1=Joy |title=Davy Jones: Four zany moments, from 'Brady Bunch' to 'SpongeBob' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/show-tracker/story/2012-02-29/davy-jones-four-zany-moments-from-brady-bunch-to-spongebob |website=Los Angeles Times |date=29 February 2012}}</ref>

===Anime/Manga===

In the [[anime]] and [[manga]] ''[[One Piece]]'', one of the story arcs (the [[Davy Back Fight arc]]) is inspired by the story of Davy Jones' Locker. In it, the [[Straw Hat Pirates]] battle the [[Foxy Pirates]] in a three competition game.

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French singer [[Nolwenn Leroy]] recorded a song titled "Davy Jones" for her 2012 album ''Ô Filles de l'Eau''. The English version contains the lines: "Davy Jones, oh Davy Jones / Where they gonna rest your bones / Down in the deep blue sea / Down in the deep blue sea..."

===Comics===

In the comic ''[[Hellboy]]'', "Davy Jones' Locker" is the lair of a creature called the Bog Roosh. The creature traps inside bottles the souls of sailors drowned at sea.

In Kaarib (Krassinsky - Calvo) the David Jones Locker refers to a group of three pirates serving Blackbeard, a pirate spirit.

In 2022 it was widely reported as referenced and explained by [[Karen Steyn|Mrs Justice Steyn]] to [[Rebekah Vardy]] in the [[Wagatha Christie]] trial.<ref>{{cite news |title='Who is Davy Jones?' Wagatha trial judge forced to explain phrase to Rebekah Vardy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/davy-jones-wagatha-christie-rebekka-vardy-b2078178.html |work=The Independent |date=20 December 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rebekah Vardy agent's phone is 'in Davy Jones' locker', court hears |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rebekah-vardy-agent-phone-davy-181702788.html |work=Yahoo News |date=12 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hyde |first1=Marina |title=Like a phone dropped in the North Sea, Vardy v Rooney is full of absolute gold |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/phone-north-sea-rebekah-vardy-coleen-rooney-libel-case |work=The Guardian |date=13 May 2022}}</ref>

In the French comics ''Kaarib'' by David Calvo and Jean-Paul Krassinsky, the Davy Jones Locker is a pirate secret service created by Blackbeard.

===Cartoons=See also==

* [[Fiddler's Green]]

Davy Jones is also a recurring story line in several episodes of [[SpongeBob Squarepants]].

* [[Flying Dutchman]]

* [[Rán]]

* [[Burial at sea]]

===Video games=Notes==

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In the [[Nintendo 64]] game [[Banjo Tooie]], Davy Jones' Locker is a flooded locker situated at the bottom of [[Atlantis]], an aquatic sub-level in the depths of the lake in [[Jolly Roger's Lagoon]]. It is the lair of the level's boss, Lord Woo Fak Fak.

==References==

In the LucasArts Monkey island series, a pirate is being described as "so tough he locked Davy Jones into his locker".

===Games===

Davy Jones is the leader of the Cursed nation in the [[Wizkids Games]] collectible game, [[Pirates of the Spanish Main]]. There are two versions of him in Crew form: his original appearance in the ''Pirates of Davy Jones Curse'' expansion, and his more recent and greatly more powerful incarnation in the ''Pirates At Ocean's Edge'' expansion. The Wizkids version of Davy Jones slightly resembles the movie version, though without the face tentacles and crab claw. He is linked to his ship, the Flying Dutchman.

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