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Tuesday 25 July 2017

Spanish galley Rocafulla in 1572

Part of the Holy League fleet commanded by Don Juan de Austria gathered off Gumenizas on 9 September 1572. Part of the vanguard commanded by Pedro Justiano, general of the galleys of San Juan of Jerusalem (Order of Malta). Captain Ortuño,

Source
Armada española desde la union de los reinos de castilla y aragon. C. Fernandez Duro, volume 2, 1896, 176-180.