Note 179 — Chapter XLII

From a careful comparison of accounts I venture to distribute the wrecks as follows:—

1. To the south of Slea Head (‘in Desmond’ Fenton says);

1. ‘Nuestra Señora della Rosa’ (945 tons, 26 guns, and 297 men), between Slea Head and the Blaskets;

1. Deserted and burned near Carrigaholt in Clare;

1. At Dunbeg in Clare;

1. At Trumree in Clare;

1. The ‘White Falcon’ (500 tons, 16 guns, 197 men), in Connemara;

2. In Clew Bay (of which one was the ‘Rata,’ 820 tons, 35 guns, 419 men);

1. In Tyrawley;

3. Near Sligo, the ‘San Juan de Sicilia,’ one of them (800 tons, 26 guns, 342 men);

2. At uncertain places in Connaught;

2. At Killybegs;

1. The transport ‘Duquesa Santa Ana’ (900 tons, 23 guns, 357 men), at Loughros Bay;

1. In Boylagh, Donegal;

1. The ‘Trinidad Valencera’ (1,100 tons, 42 guns, 360 men), on the Innishowen side of Lough Foyle;

1. The ‘Gerona’ galeass (50 guns, 290 men), between Dunluce and the Bann.

This makes twenty, and there were probably two or three more lost. The ‘Barca de Amburg’ (600 tons, 23 guns, 264 men) sank off the coast somewhere.

The numbers of men given in this note are from the Spanish official list (Duro, ii. 60), but we know that many were transferred from one vessel to another. See, besides the authorities already cited, Fenton’s note calendared at Sept. 19, 1588, and Bingham to the Queen, Dec. 3. Other ships mentioned in Spanish accounts as having been lost in Ireland are the galleon ‘San Juan Battista’ (750 tons, 24 guns, 243 men); the ‘Anunciada’ (703 tons, 24 guns, 275 men), and the transports, ‘Gran Grifon’ (650 tons, 38 guns, 286 men), and ‘Santiago’ (600 tons, 19 guns, 86 men).—Duro, ii. 328.