Parma’s invasion flotilla was unfit to put to sea at all

Evidence

There is something unreal about the whole scene that stormy Tuesday evening at Dunkirk; one flyboat with no guns and its mast unstepped, another with no running rigging, another waterlogged and on its beam ends in the mud of the canal; some barges left uncaulked and already beginning to leak; others whose seams started the minute they were loaded; and the soldiers being tumbled into the sound barges like sacks of wheat, laughing incredulously when they saw the bare coffin-shaped boxes in which they were expected to put to sea. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 726

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my interest in how physical/material readiness diverges from command intent. — connects to: Parma likely foresaw the Armada campaign was doomed from its start — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 727
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 726

Broader Connections

• Parma likely foresaw the Armada campaign was doomed from its start #corroborates (0.80) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 727