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To die at sea. Tragically, many men from that battle in the Pacific Ocean went to Davy Jones's locker.
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be drowned at sea. Davy Jones is identified in Tobias Smollett's Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) as ‘the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep’, but the origin of the name is uncertain.