Congratulations on discovering the resting place of the Spanish Armada !
The year is 1588 and the king of Spain has had enough of the protestants in england. He has 130 warships readied in A Coruña to escort a spanish army to invade England from Belgium.
They were attacked in the English channel with fire ships from Calais, after the battle of Gravelines they were driven into the north sea with twenty ships lost and many more damaged or missing their anchors
Streedagh beach with the remains of a spanish vessel
After taking stock in the north sea the decision was made to return to Spain via the west coast of Scotland and Ireland.
After making a navigational blunder and with a southerly storm raging twenty eight more ships were wrecked on the rocky coast of Ireland.
Three of these ships, the La Lavia, La Juliana and the Santa Maria de vison were wrecked near and even on the beach of Streedagh where we sometimes teach surfing.
The local English garrisons in Ireland made the aid of Spanish sailors a capitol offence and few would survive their ordeal.
