| GODSPEED | One of the three ships on the voyage to the New World that resulted in the founding of Jamestown |
| SANTAMARIA | Largest of three ships on the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (5,5) |
| DRLIVESEY | Treasure Island character, this former soldier accompanies Jim Hawkins and Squire Trelawney on the voyage to find Captain Flint's loot (2,7) |
| REMUS | Important player in the founding-of-Rome story |
| NINA | One of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage of discovery, in 1492 (4) |
| MDIV | Year Columbus returned from his final voyage to the New World |
| ACTV | In "The Tempest," when Miranda says "O brave new world, That has such people in't!" |
| BRETTON | & 25A Venue in New Hampshire, US, of a 1944 conference that resulted in the establishment of the World Bank |
| WOODS | Venue in New Hampshire, US, of a 1944 conference that resulted in the establishment of the World Bank (7,5) |
| SAMUELADAMS | Author of the 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter that resulted in the occupation of Boston by the Br |
| GLORIOUS | The so-called ___ Revolution that resulted in the accession of William and Mary to the throne (8) |
| MAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer who led and organised part of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth before he was killed in a skirmish (8) |
| KEBLE | College named after the 19th-century clergyman who led the Oxford Movement that resulted in the development of Anglo-Catholicism (5) |
| OUDENARDE | Battle of ?, July 1708 conflict in the War of the Spanish Succession that resulted in victory for the Allies over France (9) |
| BREADFRUIT | Foodstuff that HMS Bounty was meant to take from Tahiti to the West Indies, on the voyage that ended in mutiny |
| GULFWAR | Conflict that resulted in the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 (4,3) |
| NIN | The ___, one of the three ships commanded by Columbus in 1492 (4) |
| VESPUCCI | Navigator Amerigo, who made voyages to the New World in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (8) |
| FROBISHER | 16th Century English sea captain who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage |
| STEVEDORE | Works on ships on the Tees and in Dover (9) |