| SANTAMARIA | Ship that ran aground on Christmas Day (Blondie) |
| NOAH | Sailor who ran aground on Mount Ararat (4) |
| EVERGIVEN | Container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal in 2021 (4,5) |
| STRANDS | Runs aground on the seashore, and is on the ropes (7) |
| STRAND | Run aground on the way to a Scottish border |
| STRANDED | Run aground on a reef |
| EXXONVALDEZ | Oil tanker that ran aground in the Gulf of Alaska in 1989 |
| AMOCO | ___ Cadiz, oil tanker that ran aground off Brittany in 1978 (5) |
| TORREYCANYON | Oil tanker that ran aground off Cornwall in 1967 (6,6) |
| CANYON | Supertanker that ran aground between Land's End, England and the Scilly Isles in 1967 (6,6) |
| TORREY | Supertanker that ran aground between Land's End, England and the Scilly Isles in 1967 (6,6) |
| BRAER | Oil tanker that ran aground near Sumburgh Head, Shetland in January 1993 (5) |
| ENDEAVOURREEF | Coral bank where Captain Cook's ship ran aground in 1770 |
| WAHINE | Ship which ran aground in Wellington Harbour during a 1968 storm (6) |
| HAITI | Modern-day locale of the place where the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492 |
| CONCORDIA | Costa ___, cruise ship which ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012, killing 32 crew and passengers (9) |
| SUEZ | Canal built in 1869, fought for in 1956, and in the news in 2021 when a ship ran aground and blocked it |
| LERMONTOV | Russian cruise ship which ran aground and sank in the Marlborough Sounds in 1986, the Mikhail ___ (9) |
| ALASKA | Where the Exxon Valdez ran aground |
| PRINCEWILLIAMSOUND | Stretch of water in which the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 |
