Ship tonnage figures are reconstructed from several modern scholarly sources

Evidence

The tonnage figures in the second column have been drawn chiefly from Corbett (Sp. War, p. xii); those in square brackets are from other sources, such as Laughton’s Armada, Andrews, Elizabethan Privateering, Williamson, Hawkins of Plymouth, and Thomas Glasgow, Jnr, ‘List of Ships … 1539-1588’, Mariner’s Mirror, LVI (1970), 299-307. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2044

Categorization

• XREF: Corbett’s Spanish War and Laughton’s Armada are the standard sources also cited on the Armada fireship debate — keeps the verification trail consistent.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2044