Changes in maritime technology, however minor, sometimes have been enough to change the course of history forever. So it was 422 years ago this week that the world witnessed one of those landmark ...
Picture of the recovery of a Spanish Armada cannon at Streedagh May 1985 by Colin Martin The discovery of the St Peter cannon of the Spanish Armada at Streedagh in 2015 by the Underwater Archaeology ...
The defeat of the Spanish Armada was a turning point in the histories of both England and Spain and one of the great achievements of Queen Elizabeth I. It effectively destroyed the Spanish Empire ...
More than four centuries after it sank to the sea bed, the secrets of a Spanish Armada wreck are being uncovered off the west coast of Ireland. A number of cannons, timbers and an anchor from La ...
Michael Barry has already published four impressive books on Spain, and this fifth, about the famous Spanish Armada, places special emphasis on the fates of some of the expedition along the Irish ...
In 1588, 130 Spanish ships pointed their bows toward England, intent on invading the country and overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I. But they were unprepared for the battle they instigated. British ships ...
Archaeologists plan to discover whether a myth-shrouded plot of land on Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast contains the remains of hundreds of Spanish sailors who drowned when the Armada floundered.