the adnJiral. 1 The galleasses fired their stern grins, as also did Juan 3Iartiuez anti Don Alonso de Leyva and the other ships of the squadron, without quitting station. Thus the enemy d'ew off without any success, the galleasses ha ing damaged their admiral's rigging, an, l brougl;t down his main-yard."
The fight off l'ortltmd was even more indecisive than the fight off :Plymouth. Neither side lost a ship, neither side gained any tactical or strategicM adwutage. 13ut Medina Sidonia had been betrayed into contravening his instructions by seeking an action.
"Tim next am,ruing," t. ontinues 'A Relation of lh,ceedings, 's "being the 25th of Jl,ly, 1585, there was a great galleon 4 of the Spaniards short of her company to tile southwards. The.;- of Sir J-lm Hawkyns his .-quaalum, being next, towed and ret'overed so near that the boats were ],eatell o with musket shot: wherenpon three of the galleasses and an arlnado a issued (,tit of the Spalffsh fleet, with whom the lord admiral, in the .t,'/,', and the Lord Thomas 11oward, in the Gvld, �im, lbught a long tilne, and much damaged them, that one ol' thelu was lhin to be carried away up,n the careen; and another, by a shot from the Ark, lost her lantern, which came swimming by; and the third his nose. There was many good shots made hy the _Irk and Lio at the galleasses in the sight of I,oth armies, which looked on and could not al,l,roach, it being cahn, Ibr the .l,'k and the �io did tow to the galleasses with their long boats. At length it began to blow a little gale, and the Spanish fleet edged up to succour their galleasses, and so rescued them and the galleon, after ;vhich time the galleasses were never seen ill fight any more,; so i,ad was their entertainment in tiffs encotmter. Then the fleets, drawing near one to another, began some fight, but it continue, l not long, saving that the _Vopal'eil and the _]ltry vse struck their topsails, and lay awhile by the whole fleet' of Spain very bravely, during which time the ];'iuq,],, to the no,'thward of the Slanish fleet, was o lr to leeward s as, doubting that some of the Spanish army might weather her, le towed off with tile hel l, of sundry boats, and so recovered the wind2 The /,a' and the yEliabeth Joas, perceiving her distress, bare with her for her rescue, and put themselves, through their ha,'diness, into like perils, but lnade their parties go-d notwithstanding, until they had recovered the wind; and so th:lt day's fight ended, ;hich was a very sharp figlit tbr the tilne. TM
Apl,arently Recahle.
Dnro, does. lt;;, 16t, lS5; Manrique to l'hilip. But there seems to be no English mention of this, or of the loss of the main-yard.
Cott. 51S. Julius, F. x. 111-117.
l{ecahlds flagship, the Eatt ,a. She had been severely mauled on the 21st and 23nh Recahle lambably shilted his flag from her on the 24th. Aller the rough handling which she received on the 25th, she parted company from the Armada during the night, and drilked to La Hogue, whence she went to Le Havre, where at length she Icame a complete wreck.
An "armado," i.e. a galleta or large ship belonging to armada, of which arnado
is an English corruption. a 1.,.. healed over, probably in order to raise her shot holes above the water. r Yet 31cdina Sidonia considered that the gaHeass that day did very well.
The wind, nowhere exl,rsly given, must haw been S. or S..W.
"Vanegas says that the way in which the 'iumlh w;{s handled was nuch admired by the Spaniards. Duro, doc. 185, p. 88. " It to& place off the Isle of Wight, and, according to Miranda, last lbr aut
l;nn' hutrs. lhtro, doe. 171, l'- 20�.