| SPITHEAD | Location of British naval mutiny |
| POTEMKIN | Battleship ___ , silent film directed by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein about a Russian naval mutiny (8) |
| TRAFALGAR | Battle of British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars (9) |
| ERAS | Period of British naval supremacy, and others |
| HORATIO | Forename of British naval commander Viscount Nelson (7) |
| NAVYBLUE | Hue of the British naval uniform (4,4) |
| BASS | British naval surgeon and explorer who proved the existence of a passage between mainland Australia |
| COOK | James ---, British naval captain credited with the first circumnavigation of New Zealand (4) |
| NELSON | Horatio ___, British naval commander who died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar (6) |
| BLIGH | British naval officer who, after being set adrift by mutinous members of his crew, navigated 4,000 miles to safety (5) |
| CSFORESTER | Creator of the Horatio Hornblower, a British naval officer in the Napoleonic era (1,1,8) |
| SQUAREMEAL | What phrase originated from the shape of food trays on early British naval ships? (6,4) |
| OHMS | Units of resistance making love on a British naval vessel (4) |
| HMS | Letters before the name of a British naval vessel (inits)(1,1,1) |
| HOBSON | William ---, British naval officer and the first Governor of New Zealand (6) |
| JELLICOE | John, admiral who commanded British naval forces at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 (8) |
| OSTEND | Belgian city and ferry port, scene of two raids by British naval forces during WWI (6) |
| POLE | Named after a British naval officer, Lord ___ Island lies 600km east of New South Wales (4) |
| SCAPAFLOW | British naval base site in the Orkney Islands |
| LORD | British naval hero ___ Mountbatten |
