Pirate Captain Davey Jones: Time Is Now

By Captain David Belding, Kris Long and Sherrie Belding

The Pirate Captain Davy Jones, none have left their mark on history as much as him. You have heard of famous pirates like Black Beard, Captain Kid, Henry Morgan, and Captain Hook. This is the story of one just as notorious, his fame is known but not the man, known to his crew only as "Captain," or "Captain Davy," to his victims as the Ghost Capt

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rare Books Media
• Release date: May 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781957848105

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Copyright © 2022 by: David Belding 

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ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-957848-09-9 

(Paperback): 978-1-957848-10-5 

To my wife Sherrie Belding for all the nights I stayed up late writing these story’s and for ore son Kris for helping out. 

Contents 

Davy Jones Locker Introduction

Chapter 1: Portuguese Man-O-War

Chapter 2: Jody

Chapter 3: Mr. Buckman

Chapter 4: The Crow Nest

Chapter 5: The Slave Traders

Chapter 6: The Flying Dutchman

Chapter 7: Captain Blackman

Chapter 8: Pamela

Chapter 9

Chapter 10: The Ending Of An Aria

TIME IS NOW 

Chapter 1: The Search For Mary Allen

Chapter 2: The New Fault Line

Chapter 3: The Dump

Chapter 4: I’d Kill For A Cigarette

About The Author David Belding

Davy Jones Locker Introduction 

The Pirate Captain Davy Jones, none have left their mark on history as much as him. You have heard of famous pirates like Black Beard, Captain Kid, Henry Morgan, and Captain Hook. 

This is the story of one just as notorious, his fame is known but not the man, known to his crew only as Captain, or Captain Davy, to his victims as the Ghost Captain. To anyone else just sir, followed by yes... 

Stories say he was a hard and clever man. He came up through the pirate ranks started out as a cabin boy. Then one day, he killed all the crew that would not follow him, when he took over the ship The Dutchman. He then outfitted it with a crew of rough and ready men. That would do anything, even kill on his command. They were not hard to find. He offered all crew members equal shares of the bounty. This being unheard of, usually crew only got 1% of what was left after the captain got his 50%. His crew of 27 men, fought hard. Played hard, drank hard, and loyal to one, Captain Davy and the ship. 

GROG 

The alcohol drink of pirate’s and sailor’s of the time consisted of rum with spices added. Sounds like the spice rum we drink today the only difference is lime, sugar, and hot water where added. 

BUCCANEER 

Is the name pirates of the Caribbean area called themselves? 

Dance the Hempen Jig 

What life as a pirate would end at, when caught? The Hang Man’s rope of those days was made of Hemp. 

Marooning 

Was the most used punishment by pirates, leaving someone on an island with no food or water.  

Walking the Plank 

Was not really used, no one would just walk off a plank without a fight, it would be easier to just tie a cannon ball to the condemned man and throw it over board, taking the unlucky man with it. 

Jolly Roger 

The flag for pirates traditional, English named for the flag flown to identify when a pirate ship was about to attack 

Captain Davy Jones crew consisted of: 

Chapter 1 

Portuguese Man-O-War 

It was a Portuguese Man-o-War ship. The most feared ship on t he High Seas (over 1,200 ton displacement, and 120 cannons with double oak plank sides). She is a floating fortress; Pirates would give her a wide path. Even though all knew, she carried large amount of gold from the Central Americas to Portugal. A broadside from her cannons would leave any pirate ship in splinters. 

But Captain Davy Jones was determined to take her. He had been dogging her for two days just staying in sight of her mask, letting the Man of War crew see just his mask in hopes that they would believe that the Dutchman was just a merchant ship staying close for protection and then drop their guard. The Dutchman a much faster ship had no problem staying up with the bigger Man-o-War. On the Dutchman, the usually tar bottom had been replace with pitch and Captain Davy Was religious about keep the bottom clean of barnacles or anything that might slow her down. The other thing was the Dutchman was painted all white so in the distance it looks like a cloud or fog. 

The method pirates used to take a ship was to sail alongside firing at the mast and deck once the mast was downed the ship was helpless. The pirates would then come alongside, using grappling hooks and pull the boats together. Then it was hand-to-hand combat or point blank range of a single shot pistol. A merchant ship with its sailing crew who were not trained in combat would soon be overrun by well-armed fighting men. The battles were usually short and over in minuets with casualties on both sides. However, generally the pirates won. Mainly because there were a lot more pirates on pirate ship than hands on a merchant ship. Any extra space on merchant ships where used for storing of trade goods. 

The pirate would then take anything of value and set the merchant ship adrift. If it was considered a good ship it would be added to the pirate fleet or sold. It might be taken to a harbor and stripped down to the gunnels and sunk. Either way the merchant sailors would be pressed into slaves or killed. 

Captain Davy had a different way with his faster ship he would wait for fog. He had an uncanny way of following and finding another ship in the fog. With fog, there was no wind. And no wind, meant no moving, but the Dutchman could still somehow move when other ship could not. The other ship thinking that since they could not move either could the pirate ship then letting their guard down, The Dutchman would slide up next to them. The first cannon shot would be grape shot (small round balls of lead). This would clear the deck but not causing much damage. The next ten shot were aimed at the water line. Seven or more six-inch holes in any boat and it was going down. 

The Dutchman would sail out of cannon range and watch. Another one into the locker, the Captain would say as the ship sank. Then they would go back over and pick up the saviors, who would be happy to be onboard, with no fight left in them. 

Not that the crew of the Dutchman were non-fighters. There’s not a man on the Dutchman, who could not hold his own against any 3 merchant crew. But why take a chance of getting cut maybe even killed, when you weren’t drunk and having a good time like they would have at the Crow Nest, or some other pirate hang outs. 

Now you may wonder about all that booty that just went down. Well a lot of it was just floating around for them to pick up. The rest of the things were the best keep secrets only the captain and crew knew and none dare tell. 

Till now, the transom or back of the Dutchman would open and make a landing. Crew members would carry pouches with shot in them around their neck to pull then down under the water. They would take large buckets the size of a wash bin weighted with lead over their heads, a leather hose ran from the bucket to black smith billows in the boat, manned by other crewmembers. 

The divers would slip into the water taken the buckets with them to the ocean floor. Once there, they would walk over to the sunken ship, then swim out find what they wanted, coming back to the bucket for air, without having to go to the surface for air every time. 

When the divers found what they wanted, they would tie it on lines sent down from the ship. The other crew members would haul it aboard. Divers were only allowed to stay down a half hour. Then they would trade off with other crew members this was a strict rule of the captain. This was done till all the bounty was on board the Dutchman. All members of the crew knew how to swim and use the tubs. They would only be in 50 feet of water. The captain had a candid way of knowing where to sink a ship. 

This method of sinking a ship would not work on a Man-o-War ship with its thick double wall sides. Even using eight pounder cannons would not penetrate the oak planks. And over powering the crew was out of the question. A Man-o-War ship carried a crew of over 200 men. 

After 2 days of dogging the bigger ship the men of the Dutchman were getting ready to move on to easier pray or go to port, get drunk, and chase wenches. But all knew their Captain and said nothing. 

Finally, on the