The coasts of Norway, Scotland, Ireland, were strewn with the wrecks of that pompous fleet, which claimed the dominion of the seas with the bones of those invincible legions which were to have sacked London and made England a Spanish vice-royalty.
Through the remainder of the month of August there, was a succession of storms.

On the 2nd September a fierce southwester drove Admiral Oquendo in his galleon, together with one of the great galeasses, two large Venetian ships, the Ratty and the Balauzara, and thirty-six other vessels, upon the Irish coast, where nearly every soul on board perished, while the few who escaped to the shore--notwithstanding their religious affinity with the inhabitants--were either butchered in cold blood, or sent coupled in halters from village to village, in order to be shipped to England.

A few ships were driven on the English coast; others went ashore near Rochelle.
Of the four galeasses and four galleys, one of each returned to Spain.

Of the ninety-one great galleons and hulks, fifty-eight were lost and thirty-three returned.

Of the tenders and zabras, seventeen were lost.
and eighteen returned.