Davy jones biography pirate

Davy Jones' Locker represents nautical superstition was popularized in the 19th century, but whose origins go back the 18th century seamen and pirates.

Phrase "Davy Jones' Locker" represents idiom for the bottom of the sea, death for the drowned sailors and the entering point of the afterlife for the dead sailors and pirates. The name "Davy Jones" is often represented to be devil, saint, or god of the seas.

Origins of his name are not known today, with many historians claiming that it became virally spread among the sailors of that age.

Davy jones biography pirate

During 1630s there was a pirate captain under a name David Jones that sailed across the Indian Ocean, but many scholars are in the agreement that he was not sufficiently famous to gain such a lasting remembrance.

One of the earliest written mentioning's of the Davie Jones comes from the books "Four Years Voyages of Capt.

George Roberts" by Daniel Defoe in 1726 and "The Adven