| BREST | Brittany port and naval base (5) |
| IZMIR | Turkish port and naval base on the Aegean Sea (5) |
| OSTIA | Port and naval base of ancient Rome, until its harbour silted up (5) |
| TOULON | French Mediterranean port and naval base (6) |
| CHERBOURG | Port and naval base in Normandy (9) |
| LASPEZIA | Port and naval base in Liguria, Italy, on the Ligurian Sea (2,6) |
| PEPYS | English diarist and naval administrator, d. 1703 (5) |
| SCOTT | Explorer and naval officer whose final Christmas was spent leading the Terra Nova Expedition (5) |
| SCAPAFLOW | Strait and naval base in the Orkney Islands (5,4) |
| CARTAGENA | Spanish port city and naval base in the region of Murcia (9) |
| LORIENT | Atlantic port and naval station in NW France on the Bay of Biscay (7) |
| SEAPOWER | We are so excited about opening of ports and naval strength (3,5) |
| STMALO | Brittany port (2,4) |
| SAMUELPEPYS | English diarist and naval administrator whose diary includes accounts of the Great Plague and the Fire of London |
| MARRYAT | Frederick 'Captain' _, English novelist and naval officer whose works include Peter Simple (1834) and Mr Midshipman Eash (1834) (7) |
| DONITZ | Karl -, 1891-1980, German Nazi politician and naval commander (6) |
| NELSON | Viscount and naval hero born in 1758 (7,6) |
| HORATIO | Viscount and naval hero born in 1758 (7,6) |
| FTDIXNJ | Army post merged with McGuire AFB and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst |
| BEAUFORT | Sir Francis ___, Irish-born hydrographer and naval officer who devised a scale for indicating wind force |
