| PERSONNEL | For every battle Nelson got his crew (9) |
| PERSONALCOLUMN | Nelson's got his own small ads in it (8,6) |
| ARMED | Prepared for battle - Nelson became singularly so |
| SHOTINTHEARM | A real boost that Nelson got? (4,2,3,3) |
| HORATIO | Nelson got involved with oration (7) |
| SHIPWRECK | His crew managed to save president and king in Titanic, perhaps (9) |
| LOTOPHAGI | Fruit consumers visited by Odysseus and his crew after they were blown off course |
| JAMAICA | The island on which Columbus and his crew were stranded for a year, 1503/04 (7) |
| QUEEG | His crew nicknamed him "Old Yellowstain" |
| STROKE | Soothe one leading his crew down the river (6) |
| WHALERS | Captain Ahab and his crew |
| GOLDENFLEECE | Mythical treasure sought by Jason and his crew of Argonauts (6,6) |
| BLIGH | The captain who was put off by his crew |
| DRAKE | Might his crew have though him ducky? (5) |
| TREKKIE | Big fan of Captain Kirk and his crew |
| ENTERPRISE | The name of the vessel that propelled Captain James T Kirk and his crew of 438 to "boldly go where n |
| 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) |
| SCOTT | Explorer who died with his crew on return home from the South Pole (5) |
| NORSE | Airship in which Roald Amundsen and his crew made a crossing of the Arctic (5) |
| COOK | Commander of the ship Endeavour who set sail with his crew to Tahiti in 1768 to chart the transit of Venus across the Sun (4) |
