| MARYROSE | Henry VIII's warship which sank in 1545 (4,4) |
| FLORIZEL | S.S. ___, Canadian ship (named after a character in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) which sank in 1 |
| MARY | - Rose; Henry VIII's warship that sank in the Solent in 1545 (4) |
| ROSEMARY | Plant where Henry VIII's warship gets parts exchanged |
| ROSE | Warship of Henry VIII'S navy, sank in the Solent in 1545 (4,4) |
| INSPADES | During spring, heart of bride sank in an extreme way (2,6) |
| INKSTAIN | It sank in regrettably, Mark (8) |
| ELEPHANT | Where Shackleton and his crew found refuge after the Endurance sank in 1915 (8,6) |
| TITANIC | Luxury liner which sank in the Atlantic in 1912 (7) |
| TAVERNER | English composer of polyphonic church music, 1490-1545 (8) |
| EMPRESS | ___ of Ireland aka 'canada's Titanic' (Ocean liner which sank in the St. lawrence in 1914) |
| EASTLAND | Passenger steamer that sank in a 1915 disaster |
| SANDBANK | Spooner's band sank in shoal (8) |
| SOLENT | The -; strait separating the Isle of Wight from England where Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose was raised in 1982 and Cowes Week races take place (6) |
| TEMPLENEWSAM | Tudor-Jacobean mansion in Yorkshire, birthplace of Lord Darnley in 1545 (6,6) |
| JOHNTAVERNER | English organist, composer of mass Gloria tibi Trinitas, who died in 1545 |
| ERE | Before, in 1545 |
| DEPTH | To which sank Section G even lower? (5) |
| RMSEMPRESSOFIRELAND | Liner called 'Canada's Titanic' (It sank in just 14 minutes when struck by a Norwegian ship in fog on the St. Lawrence River, in 1914): acr. + wd. + wd. + wd. |
| LERMONTOV | Russian cruise ship which ran aground and sank in the Marlborough Sounds in 1986, the Mikhail ___ (9) |
