Possible Clues:

• Bowler responsible for English victory?
• Good swimmer, a playboy, who came to a bad end
• A ducky little sailor he was as a boy
• Admiral Sir Francis
• Aquatic bird - it's used to fish
• May have been an ugly duckling
• -'s Drum (Newbolt)
• Fly as a navigator
• He claimed the coast of California for Queen Elizabeth
• Duck when the dunderhead playboy appears!