![]() Hard cover, the book is in good nick, the dust jacket shows minor signs of wear. Colin Martin vividly describes the excitement of the moment of discovery and the technical problems of retrieving and evaluating the guns and other artifacts on the sea bed. Why were the great Spanish guns so ineffective? What part did the elements play in the destruction of the fleet? How good was the standard of Spanish seamanship? What was life like for those who sailed in these hastily converted merchantmen?īefore the detective work could begin, the wrecks themselves had to be found and identified, and this was slow, dangerous and frustrating work. Sydney Wignall and Colin Martin, both highly experienced in underwater archeology, firmly believed that by examining the remains of the ships from the 'invincible Armada', answers could be found to questions which have puzzled historians for almost four centuries. ![]() An account of the identification and excavation of three ships which sailed in the Spanish Armada of 1588. But what really happened during that fateful encounter In his recent book, Armada, (co-authored with Colin Martin), Parker draws on archives from around the. ![]()
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