Identifier: draketudornavy02corb (find matches)
Title: Drake and the Tudor navy, with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922
Subjects: Drake, Francis, 1540?-1596
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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h breeze was necessary to bring outthe full advantages of the English methods. So confusedand contradictory, however, are the extant accounts of thisengagement that criticism is hardly possible. We cannoteven restore with certainty the bare outlines of what tookplace—a matter greatly to be regretted, seeing that thiswas the first attempt of the new school to formulate anorder of battle suitable to their tactics. Still a carefulexamination of the ascertained facts permits a probableconjecture of what was attempted. That it was Hawkins who opened the day is clear.1 The next morning, says Howard, 1 being the 25th of July1588, there was a great galleon of the Spaniards short ofher company. This, say the Spaniards, was the 1 SanLuis, one of the Portuguese galleons that had been toldoff to reinforce the rearguard. From them also welearn that the Santa Anna, the hulk of the Andaluciansquadron, was similarly isolated. They of Sir John1 Sir George Carey to Sussex, July 25 (Laughton, i. 323).
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PORTLAND AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT 249 Hawkins his squadron being next, Howard continues,1 towed and recovered so near that the boats (i.e. whichwere towing) were beaten off with musket shot: where-upon three of the galleasses and an armado issued outof the Spanish fleet. It was Leyva in his Levanter, the Kata, says the Diario, that accompanied the galleassesto the rescue with other vessels. Howard—whosesquadron presumably was next Hawkinss and as we shallsee to starboard—had himself towed to meet them, andwith him went Lord Thomas Howard in the GoldenLion. They fought the galleasses, the Lord Admiraltells us, a long time and much damaged them, (so) thatone of them was fain to be carried away upon the careenand another by a shot of the Ark lost her lantern whichcame swimming by and the third his nose. There weremany good shots made by the Ark and Lion at thegalleasses in the sight of both armies which looked onand could not approach, it being calm; for the Arkand the Lion did tow to t

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