Challenge and response -- Spanish shipbuilding and the contract of Martin de Arana -- The construction of Arana's six galleons -- Reckoning the cost -- Preparations for the Indies Fleet of 1629 -- Officers and men -- Shipboard life -- The struggle for
the Indies, 1629-1635 -- The struggle for survival, 1635-1640 -- Inventories of the six galleons built by Martin de Arana -- Some weights, measures, and coinage in use in seventeenth-century Spain.
In 1625, Martin de Arana built six Atlantic warships for the Spanish crown. The author traces the ships from their construction through a decade of service, incorporating a history of Spain's Golden Age.
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