Editing Davy Jones's locker (section)

==Use in media==
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===18th century===
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>

{{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"/>|}}

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

===19th century===
[[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===
[[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.

[[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.

[[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".

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.

[[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 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 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.}}

===21st century===
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>

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..."

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>