This is pretty cool. One of the parts I love the most of boats/sailing is how they're basically the culmination of thousands of years of human science, engineering and technology. I especially like how this is published in an Irish paper about the ship sailing along the coast there.

When I was in my late teens a Spanish cousin took me to the maritime/naval museum in Madrid and I didn't have much context for things at the time. Look forward to visiting again at some point.

If the names of the ships that sank there are known, along with the numbers of sailors who perished, does that mean there were some survivors? Or other ships witnessed the sinking but managed to make it home? That part of Ireland in 1588 was indeed very wild and at that time Gaelic speaking.

Although amongst the local clergy perhaps there were some people who could speak Spanish or Latin if any shipwrecked sailors made it ashore.