Possible Clues:

• In need of bailing, perhaps
• Seeping out
• Revealing the French monarch accepting answer
• Divulging (secret info)
• Top man in his field, perhaps, spouting?
• Divulging secret information
• Weeping, the French ruler cradles Antoinette's head
• Man on board goes down after short jump -- when the vessel's this?
• Revealing secret
• Faulty, as a tank