Editing Davy Jones's locker (section)

{{short description|Sailor legend}}
{{other uses|Davy Jones' Locker (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox fictional location
| name = Davy Jones' locker
| image = Punch Davy Jones's Locker.png
| imagesize = 
| caption = ''Davy Jones' Locker'', by [[John Tenniel]], 1892
| source = 
| first = ''Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts'' (1726)
| creator = 
| genre = Nautical folklore
| type = [[Euphemism]] for oceanic [[abyss (religion)|abyss]], the resting place for sailors drowned at sea.
| people = Davy Jones
}}

[[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>]]
'''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.