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BLIGHBritish naval officer who, after being set adrift by mutinous members of his crew, navigated 4,000 miles to safety (5)
BOUNTYShip from which William Bligh was set adrift by his mutinous crew (6)
FRANKLIN1845: British naval officer who led a fateful expedition to the Northwest Passage, Sir John ___ (b.1786 - d.1847)
COMESTORegains 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)
SCURVYCrossing the Pacific in 1520, Magellan lost more than 80 per cent of his crew to what? (6)
OLDLABOURInformally, members of his party opposed to reforms started by Neil Kinnock
DONKEYKONG1980s video game about a gorilla and other members of his family (6,4)
BUYINTOPay to enter island held by mutinous characters from Bounty
TRUCULENCECeasefire broken by mutinous uncle's aggression (10)
WILLIAMCaptain of the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty cast adrift by mutineers in 1789 (7,5)
ZAGREBBarge adrift by sharp bend that's on River Sava
POLENamed after a British naval officer, Lord ___ Island lies 600km east of New South Wales (4)
MARRYATNaval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7)
HAROLDSTARKU.S. naval officer who was chief of naval operations 1939-42 (6,5)
SEALORDEither of the two most senior naval officers who sit on the Admiralty Board of the Ministry of Defence (3,4)
DIAZPorfirio ___, president of Mexico, who, after several decades of rule, was deposed in 1911 by the Mexican Revolution (4)
TELEMACHUSThe son of Odysseus, who. after the fall of Troy. went on a quest to find his father? (10)
HENRYHUDSONMan set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6)
CSFORESTERCreator of the Horatio Hornblower, a British naval officer in the Napoleonic era (1,1,8)