| ASEA | Deployed, as a naval officer |
| FIRSTLIEUTENANT | James the First, as a naval officer (5,10) |
| PIERRELOTI | Pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud, an author of exotic novels based on his life as a naval officer |
| SEATTURTLE | Snapper deployed as a cushion? |
| MILITIAMAN | Male and Italian, I'm deployed as a reservist |
| SCIMITAR | Racism - it can be deployed as a weapon (8) |
| MACHETE | The mace deployed as a weapon (7) |
| LIFEBELT | Mainly deployed as a ring of confidence (8) |
| HYDROELECTRIC | Volatile rhetoric around Clyde deployed as a form of power (13) |
| STORM | A tempest accompanied by a gale of force 10, according to the grading of wind speeds devised by Sir Francis Beaufort during his time as a naval hydrographer (5) |
| DRAKE | Was he billed as a naval hero? (5) |
| BEFORETHEMAST | (Serving) as a naval rating (6,3,4) |
| BOATSWAIN | A naval officer responsible for a ship's equipment |
| TRIPOLIHARBOR | North African coastal area that served as a naval battleground during the First Barbary War (Hawaii) |
| WHITEADMIRAL | Butterfly has a holiday, having captured the heart of Pinkerton, a naval officer (5,7) |
| ARNOLD | A naval officer, at first, had long day with a poet and critic (6) |
| PIQUEENSIGN | Tick off a naval officer? |
| ALTAIR | A naval officer bearing star (6) |
| COMMODORE | Gold-lined cabinet for a naval officer (9) |
| CAPTAIN | Cain apt to become a naval officer (7) |
