Only 60 ships are known to have reached Spain, many of them too badly damaged to be repaired, and perhaps 15,000 men perished.

Evidence

Spanish Armada | Definition, Defeat, & Facts (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Drake’s destruction of seasoned timber caused the Armada’s provisions to rot prematurely — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 876; By the time the last surviving ships reached Spain in October, half the original Armada was lost and some 15,000 men had perished — a higher toll than the 13,500 figure. — Spanish Armada defeated | August 8, 1588; Over half the Spanish Armada ships were lost along with fifteen thousand men — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1080

Related

• By the time the last surviving ships reached Spain in October, half the original Armada was lost and some 15,000 men had perished — a higher toll than the 13,500 figure. (similarity 0.94)
• Over half the Spanish Armada ships were lost along with fifteen thousand men (similarity 0.90)
• More than 13,500 Armada sailors and soldiers did not come home, the vast majority victims not of English cannon fire but of lack of food and water, virulent disease and incompetent organisation. (similarity 0.85)
• The Spanish lost 44 ships and estimates suggest that between 10,000 to 20,000 people were killed or went missing. (similarity 0.83)
• No Spanish ship was lost other than the eight fire ships; the fireships’ main effect was forcing the Spanish to scatter. (similarity 0.82)
• Ships lost their anchors, and drifted out to sea to avoid catching fire, causing the Spanish ships’ formation to be completely broken. (similarity 0.82)
• The Spanish ships’ heavy guns. They sustained serious damage and casualties without being able to reply effectively. Three Spanish ships were… (similarity 0.80)
• No Spanish ships were burnt, but the crescent formation had been broken, and the fleet found itself too far leeward of Calais in the rising southwesterly wind. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Over half the Spanish Armada ships were lost along with fifteen thousand men #corroborates (0.75) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1080