Possible Clues:

• Bank, say, welcoming one legendary character who tragically went under
• Drowned youth's name printed in editorial
• Greek who drowned in the Hellespont
• Spare the German channel swimmer
• British rowing club which won the Olympic men’s eight in 1908 and 1912
• Tragic lover of myth
• He loved Hero
• Hero’s boyfriend died in comparatively poor surroundings
• Ill-fated lover's articles, two of them foreign
• Swimmer in Greek myth who is mentioned in several Shakespeare plays