| LAUNCHED | Sailed a vessel for the first time (8) |
| LEEWAY | The navigator on board has to make allowance for this sideways drift or movement of a vessel (for the rest of us it's just room to move) |
| BOATSWAIN | A vessel for the suitor who's a petty officer, perhaps (9) |
| PARTNERSHIP | Is this a vessel for the co-director? (11) |
| SCHOONER | A ship's name, from "skim along"; a glass for beer, often strong; a vessel for a large pour of sherry, but smaller than a flagon; or, a covered prairie wagon (8) |
| DRACHMAS | Rejected Visa, maybe - initially a vessel for old coins? (8) |
| CAN | A vessel for preserved comestibles such as anchovies, baked beans, olives, peaches, pop or sardines; or, a short word for a spouted vessel with a nozzle/rose for watering plants (3) |
| AMPULLA | A two-handled ancient Roman flask; an altar cruet for consecrated wine and water; a pilgrim's bottle; or, a vessel for holy oil at a coronation (7) |
| LADLE | A deep spoon for serving soup or sauce; a vessel for conveying molten metal in a foundry; or, a long-handled Scottish church collection-box (5) |
| INKHORN | Name of a vessel for holding sepia or other chirographic fluid on a desk, thus used as a byword for a learned pedant or fussy writer (7) |
| SCUP | Bob gets a drinking vessel for the fish (4) |
| ARK | Vessel for the Torah ... or in the Torah |
| MARLIN | Nick sailed a boat called The Shady ___ |
| PRINCIPALSHIP | The main vessel for the state of being in charge of school (13) |
| ARTILLERY | Trouble aboard vessel for the big guns (9) |
| OCCUPANTS | Surprising cost includes copper cooking vessel for the tenants (9) |
| PAN | Frying vessel for the odd prawn (3) |
| BOARDMOTORBOAT | Vessel for the corporate lake outing? |
| JARDINIERE | Vessel for the display of flowers (10) |
| POOREST | Minerals carried in vessel for the most impecunious (7) |
