| GRAFSPEE | Admiral ____, Second World War battleship scuttled by its crew in the River Plate estuary |
| GRAF | The German battleship ... Spee was scuttled by her captain when she was trapped in the River Plate by British warships on December 17, 1939 |
| ADMIRAL | German battleship scuttled in 1939, the ___ Graf Spee (7) |
| SPEE | German pocket battleship blown up by her crew after the Battle of the River Plate in 1939 (4,4) |
| AJAX | British light cruiser which took part in the 1939 Battle of the River Plate against the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee (4) |
| EXETER | Heavy cruiser which, with 14Ac, took part in the Battle of the River Plate, suffering heavy damage (6) |
| ACHILLES | New Zealand light cruiser which took part in the 1939 Battle of the River Plate (8) |
| QUAYLE | The 1957 documentary-style Battle Of The River Plate starred the young Anthony ... |
| LANDARMY | Women's ____, Second World War civilian organisation created to strengthen the agricultural workforce |
| CELESTE | Mary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , U.S. ship found abandoned in the Atlantic in 1872 with the fate of its crew unknown (7) |
| EDWARDS | Tracy - - -, sailor who skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 1989 (7) |
| BISMARCK | German World War II battleship sunk in 1941 whose wreck was found in 1989 (8) |
| NEMESIS | Retributive vengeance as encountered by the crew in the tenth Star Trek feature film |
| DIPLOMAT | A dim plot scuttled by the man from the embassy (8) |
| PATTON | George Smith _; Second World War US general (6) |
| HARRIS | Sir Arthur "Bomber" _; Second World War RAF marshal (6) |
| AIRMEN | Tuskegee ___ (Second World War regimen) |
| WAR | Foyle's _, Second World War detective drama (3) |
| BADER | Douglas _, Second World War RAF fighter pilot (5) |
| RIGGING | Ship's cordage supporting its masts and sails; or, the art or science of adjusting a rowing boat and its oars according to its crew (7) |
