Possible Clues:

• Indian fitting in, by the sound of it, as commander of vessel
• Look at reports from the base of The Naval Explorer?
• Skipper could be satanic ape unfortunately
• Awful Caspian tea for Long John Silver for one
• Skipper
• Cook was one setting each cover in colour
• "'Tis the man on the bridge" — anapaestic, could that be?
• I skip report of man with turban fitting one in
• Bligh, perhaps, buries each hat in soil
• Chief officer in the main