English gunfire had crippled no Spanish ship through deliberate action

Evidence

The bitter lesson for the English was that, in the face of Spanish discipline, their chosen tactics were not working. They had not expected to sink many of the Spanish fleet at the first encounter, or the second, but they had expected to cripple the galleons one by one so that they would have to drop out of formation and be overwhelmed. So far they had taken only two Spanish ships, the Rosario and the sinking hulk of the San Salvador, and, although the English may have thought their gunfire a contributory cause, both of these had been crippled by accidents. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 674

Categorization

• XREF: Key tension setting up why fireships, not gunfire, would become the decisive tactic Drake turns to before the Calais attack. — connects to: The Spanish ships’ heavy guns. They sustained serious damage and casualties without being able to reply effectively. Three Spanish ships were… — Spanish Armada | Definition, Defeat, & Facts
• SEED: The narrative irony — the English fleet’s proud gun tactics produced only accident-crippled prizes, building to the fireship gambit.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 674