go to Davy Jones's locker
To die at sea. Tragically, many men from that battle in the Pacific Ocean went to Davy Jones's locker.
go to Davy Jones's locker
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.