Possible Clues:

• Be still, as one faces port of dispatch
• 11 down is for W or this on water
• The Santa Maria, e.g.
• Bark or junk
• Mayflower, for one
• In a word, final indication of rank or position in part of navy
• eg QE2
• Liner, for one
• British women creating a precedent in holy orders?
• Ark or bark, e.g.