| SHIPSBELL | Brass artifact recovered from the wreckage of HMS Erebus, the 1845 Franklin Expedition vessel found in the Arctic in 2014: 2 wds. |
| TERROR | HMS ___ (Ship of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, its wreckage was found in Nunavut in 2016) |
| MAUD | Queen ___ Gulf (Icy resting place of HMS Erebus, the recent headlines making ship, as per #26-Across |
| EREBUS | Ship of the 1845 Franklin Expedition |
| KEELBOAT | Lewis and Clark expedition vessel |
| ENDURANCE | Scrap university competition to secure new expedition vessel |
| PARTYBOATS | Fishing expedition vessels |
| UBOAT | At the beginning of October, two surfers at Botallack Head found the wreckage of a German submarine (1-4) |
| EXPEDITIONSHIPS | Canadian Arctic, 1845... HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to British naval officer Sir John Franklin: 2 wds. |
| SPODE | Used to serve royalty and recovered from the wreck of RMS Titanic, a brand of china founded by a potter from Stoke-on-Trent who first used the blue willow pattern (5) |
| REEFS | Cor! The wreckage of ships - finally seeing hazards in the ocean (5) |
| SALVAGE | Is wild about the pounds one could save from the wreckage (7) |
| FROSTBITE | One of the fateful Franklin expedition-to-the-northwest passage afflictions |
| DEBRIS | Brides turned out of the wreckage of building (6) |
| MERIMEE | Prosper ___, French author of the 1845 novella Carmen (1845), on which Bizet's opera was based (7) |
| FLOTSAM | The wreckage of many buried in brief notoriety (7) |
| RUINS | Manages to snatch one from the wreckage (5) |
| EDGAR | American author who wrote the 1845 narrative poem The Raven, _ Allan Poe (5) |
| PITCAIRN | ___ Island in the S Pacific was uninhabited until the landing in 1790 of the mutineers of HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions |
| OVER | Again, having recovered from the effects of (4) |
