By the time the galleons made it back home, nly 65 ships remained. With the defeat of the Spanish Armada, England began to emerge as a world power in its own right.

The Spanish Armada galleon sank in 1588, taken by rough seas off Kinnagoe Bay, in County Donegal. As Dr Martin watched, he "quickly realised this was a site of huge importance". "Four bronze guns ...

But the Spanish Armada of King Philip II failed utterly, defeated perhaps less by the military skill of Queen Elizabeth I`s naval commanders than by bad luck and rotten weather. The defeat ...