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- 1 2 3 Irlanda halla los restos de uno de los navíos de la Armada Invencible, El País.
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- ↑ A hulk of 180 tons, with 80 sailors.
- ↑ A hulk of 150 tons, with 65 sailors.
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- ↑ Garrett Mattingly rejects old estimations, makes a recount and concludes: "So, lost, at most, 31 ships (not 41), 10 pinnaces at most (not 20), two galleasses (not three), one galley. Total, not more than 44 (not 65), probably five or six and perhaps a dozen less." Mattingly, Garrett: The Armada. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. ISBN 9780395083666, p. 426.
- ↑ Casado Soto, José L.: Atlantic shipping in sixteenth-century Spain and the 1588 Armada, in Rodríguez-Salgado, M. J. and Simon Adams (eds.): "England, Spain and the Gran Armada, 1585–1604". Barnes & Noble, 1991. ISBN 0389209554, p. 116, fate of 8 ships unknown, 3 damaged, 4 lost in combat, 28 lost to weather 5 abandoned before the action