Somewhere in Texas, a vessel from America? (6)
I believe the answer is:
austin
'america?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'somewhere in texas a vessel' is the wordplay.
'somewhere in texas' becomes 'aus' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a vessel' becomes 'tin' (I've seen this in other clues).
'aus'+'tin'='AUSTIN'
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for austin that I've seen before include "Capital city of Texas" , "Texan state capital" , "Engineer" , "State capital of Texas" , "Texan city" .)