| KNEEL | Lower part of ship on left to admit navy (5) |
| KERNEL | In essence, reading to Pole in lower part of ship (6) |
| SPLAT | Turn taps on left to make wet noise (5) |
| CLOWN | Catholic left to admit fool (5) |
| SPLINTER | Southern pressure on left to bury fragment (8) |
| GONETOSEED | Past one's best, left to admit defeat on the radio (4,2,4) |
| PROWL | Keep moving front of ship on lake (5) |
| MAST | Feature of ship on which he left Thames |
| RAFT | Flat boat at stern of ship on river (4) |
| AGROUND | (Of ship) on the bottom |
| FLEETNESS | Group of ships on loch in expedition? (9) |
| START | Off and on, on and off ... like an old ship on sail? (4-5) |
| LARGO | Slow passage of old ship on lake (5) |
| ARGOT | Mythical ship on time, in a manner of speaking (5) |
| SALUT | Word, from Dutch for "break up a ship on rocks", for a crack, rent, rip or tear, such as that of an idiomatic hair; or, in another sense, a cream-and-jam-filled Cornish or Devonshire bun (5) |
| LINER | Cruise ship on Nile, briefly turning round (5) |
| ASSET | Advantage derived by a ship on film (5) |
| ATSEA | Sailing on a ship on the ocean (2,3) |
| SLOOP | A ship on whose return many wager (5) |
| CUTTY | Scotch with a ship on the label, for short |
