Does anyone know how the term” Davy Jones`s Locker came about?
One legend suggests that a particularly fiendish pub owner named David Jones used to incapacitate (drug) hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships. Sounds like a handy way of disposing of your enemies. According to Pirate Talk :Davy Jones’s Locker – a fictional place at the bottom of the ocean. In short, a term meaning death. Davey Jones (A British pirate that there is no substantial evidence to prove his existance) was said to sink every ship he ever over took, and thus, the watery grave that awaited all who were sunk by him was given his name. To die at sea is to go to “Davey Jones’s Locker”. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers an interesting linguistic take on the issue: Davy is a bastardization of Duffy, the West Indian term for ghost. Jones comes from Jonah, the prophet who spent a few uncomfortable days lodged in the GI tract of a whale. And a locker, loosely defined, is a place to store valuable things. So the phrase “He’s gone to Davy Jones’
