Answers Are Famous Ships

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10. Great white whale (8)

12. I miss female relative mixed with half a group (9)

24. Scent back for sub-continent, missing 500 (8)

[elliemay1]

10 Sturgeon? 

[sddsddean]

24 Brut backwards, IN(D)IA = Turbinia

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12    Endurance

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12    Is   Ne(i)ce and Duran (Duran)

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Anyone have any other ideas for 

Great white whale (8)?

[Tilly2]

Moby Dick?

[mallyh]

i can only think of the Pequod captain Ahabs ship in Moby Dick

[Togo]

I though Nautilus,but that was a submarine as well. 

[elliemay1]

I thought of that too but wrong letter count, also do they have to be real ships?

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I think they just have to be famous. Could be fictional.

[Romanski]

The Great White Whale was the nickname of the Canberra, which featured in the Falklands conflict.

[bhg481]

Roman - good one. I remember that now.