Possible Clues:

• Curiously subtler and almost petty
• A ____’s Love-song is the John Betjeman poem featuring Joan Hunter Dunn
• Officer wants change in U-boat direction
• Officer is a star, beginning to bring change internally
• Army rank
• Officer to get boat and change direction
• Officer may be unstable at sea tackling onset of rainstorm
• Junior officer’s payment to change name
• Curiously subtler and almost of lower status
• A military officer below the rank of captain