8450

Updated: May 3, 2025

The Most Happy Armada, for so he had styled it, consisted of 134 sail of towering ships, of the total burden of 57,868 tons; on board of it wore 19,295 soldiers, 8450 sailors, 2088 slaves, and 2830 pieces of cannon.

William Henry Giles Kingston - How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves: Updated to 1900