| ROYALOAK | British ship torpedoed in Scapa Flow in 1939 killing over 800 men (5,3) |
| HMSROYALOAK | It was sunk by U-boat in Scapa Flow in 1939 (3,5,3) |
| BELGRANO | One torpedoed in ignorable action? (8) |
| UBOATS | One of them sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow (1-5) |
| KERNEL | Centre part of a ship torpedoed by the Royal Navy (6) |
| LUSITANIA | Roman province - liner torpedoed in 1915 (9) |
| MAGNACARTA | Charter issued in Runnymede over 800 years ago in 1215 that focused on the rights of free men and preventing King John from exploiting his power (5,5) |
| STATEPARK | One of over 800 created under the New Deal's CCC |
| RUNNYMEDE | Water meadow on the Thames near Windsor near where King John sealed the Magna Carta over 800 years a |
| JELLICOE | 'Jubilee'No. 45667, and name given to specials carrying coal to Scapa Flow in W1 (8) |
| OAK | The battleship Royal ... was torpedoed at Scapa Flow in October, 1939, and sank with the loss of 800 lives |
| ARKROYAL | HMS --- ---, Royal Navy aircraft carrier torpedoed by a German submarine in 1941 (3,5) |
| GRANADOS | Enrique, Spanish composer who died in 1916 when the liner Sussex was torpedoed (8) |
| LIFEBOAT | 1944 Hitchcock film about survivors of a torpedoed ship (8) |
| RESOLUTE | ____ desk, table in the Oval Office built from a British ship's timbers (8) |
| NEARMISS | Submarines torpedoed? U-boat's heading away - close call! (4,4) |
| TEAPARTY | Boston --- ---, 1773 raid on three British ships in the harbour of Boston, Massachusetts, a protest against British government (3,5) |
| PITCAIRN | The population of this island is descended from the mutineers of the British ship HMS Bounty. |
| BERLINER | German city resident with European boarding British ship (8) |
| ATTACKED | Torpedoed |
