"A Mariner book." Originally published: 1959.

About the calendar -- About ships and their guns -- Curtain raiser ; Fotheringhay, February 18, 1587 -- Simplicity of a city ; London, February 19, 1587 -- Perplexity of a queen ; Greenwich, February 19-22, 1587 -- The end of a gay season ; Paris, February 28-March 13, 1587 -- Plans of operations ; Brussels, March 1-22, 1587 -- The bitter bread ; Rome, March 24-30, 1587 -- God's obvious design ; San Lorenzo de Escorial, March 24-31, 1587 -- The wind commands me away ; London and Plymouth, March 25-April 12, 1587 -- A beard is signed ; Cadix Bay, April 29-May 1, 1587 -- No matter of substance ; the Portuguese coast, May 2-20, 1587 -- Barrel staves and treasure ; Cape St. Vincent and the Azores, May 21-June 18, 1587 -- An arm is cut off ; Sluys, June 9-August 5, 1587 -- The happy day ; Coutras, October 20, 1587 -- The uses of victory ; France, October 21-December 16, 1587 -- The ominous year ; Western Europe, midwinter, 1587-1588 -- The company of these noble ships ; Greenwich and English waters, January-March, 1588 -- In the hope of a miracle ; Libson, February 9-April 25, 1588 -- The day of the barricades I ; Paris, May 12, 1588, and after -- The day of the barricades, II ; Paris, May 12, 1588, and after -- The invincible sets sail ; Lisbon to Corunna, May 9-July 22, 1588 -- The advantage of time and place ; Plymouth, the sleeve and biscay to 45 [degree sign] N, April 18-July 30, 1588 -- Entrance to the arena ; the lizard to the eddystone, July 30-31, 1588 -- First blood ; the eddystone to Start Point, July 31, 1588 -- A terrible value of Great Shot ; Start Point to Portland Bill, July 31-August 2, 1588 -- In formidable order ; Portland Bill to Calais Roads, August 2-6, 1588 -- The hellburners ; the neighborhood of Calais, August 6 and 7, 1588 -- The order broken ; Calais roads to gravelines, August 8, 1588 -- The tardy miracle ; the banks of Zeeland and the North Sea, August 9-12, 1588 -- Myself your general ; Tilbury, August 18-19, 1588 -- Drake is captured! ; western Europe, August and September, 1588 -- The long road home ; from the North sea, about 56 [degree sign] N, around Ireland to Spanish ports, August 13-October 15, 1588 -- End of a tall man ; Blois, December 23, 1588 -- The winds of God ; the escurial, New Year's, 1589 -- No a whit dismayed ; Richmond, New Year's, 1589 -- Epilogue ; New York, New Year's, 1959.