Possible Clues:

• Instruction to keep a male snake inside vessel
• Ship's mate's abnormal love in club
• Ship's second crew facing stick hiding nothing
• Vessel requiring a mast to be re-rigged
• — Willie, early Mickey Mouse film
• Second eleven cricketer bagging duck — an old 20, perhaps
• Tom Bates messed about, holding a vessel
• Sailing vessel's crew stole through empty street
• Setting for the first Mickey Mouse cartoon
• Vessel settled — on board, crew starts to bail out