| BLIGH | British naval officer who, after being set adrift by mutinous members of his crew, navigated 4,000 miles to safety (5) |
| BOUNTY | Ship from which William Bligh was set adrift by his mutinous crew (6) |
| FRANKLIN | 1845: British naval officer who led a fateful expedition to the Northwest Passage, Sir John ___ (b.1786 - d.1847) |
| COMESTO | Regains consciousness being set adrift in lake |
| MATTERHORN | "King of Mountains" rising to 4,478 m, first climbed by Edward Whymper in 1865, resulting in the death of four of his crew on the way back down (10) |
| SCURVY | Crossing the Pacific in 1520, Magellan lost more than 80 per cent of his crew to what? (6) |
| OLDLABOUR | Informally, members of his party opposed to reforms started by Neil Kinnock |
| DONKEYKONG | 1980s video game about a gorilla and other members of his family (6,4) |
| BUYINTO | Pay to enter island held by mutinous characters from Bounty |
| TRUCULENCE | Ceasefire broken by mutinous uncle's aggression (10) |
| WILLIAM | Captain of the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty cast adrift by mutineers in 1789 (7,5) |
| ZAGREB | Barge adrift by sharp bend that's on River Sava |
| POLE | Named after a British naval officer, Lord ___ Island lies 600km east of New South Wales (4) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| HAROLDSTARK | U.S. naval officer who was chief of naval operations 1939-42 (6,5) |
| SEALORD | Either of the two most senior naval officers who sit on the Admiralty Board of the Ministry of Defence (3,4) |
| DIAZ | Porfirio ___, president of Mexico, who, after several decades of rule, was deposed in 1911 by the Mexican Revolution (4) |
| TELEMACHUS | The son of Odysseus, who. after the fall of Troy. went on a quest to find his father? (10) |
| HENRYHUDSON | Man set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6) |
| CSFORESTER | Creator of the Horatio Hornblower, a British naval officer in the Napoleonic era (1,1,8) |