What are two reasons why the loss of the Armada was a terrible blow to Spain?

Question

Can anyone suggest 2 reasons why the loss was a terrible blow to Spain?

Answer 1

spain had siezed and leased and mortgaged itself to acquire foreign ships in enough numbers to carry horses,cannon and grain for the eventual land conquest of britain!!great seige guns on wheels were shipped to destroy the very gates and portcullises of britain's cities and towns and fortresses...most especially london!!!the seige guns sunk after the battle at sea and a wild flight around the northern reaches of scotland and the rocky coasts of ireland in a shallow bay where their great wheels were found in recent times!!!many "great ships",galleas,and rowed galleys were lost either in combat with the swifter ,lighter english galleons or in subsequent storms and confrontations with treacherous coastal rocks!!!this was first and foremost a shock to the prestige of spanish arms and forces....reducing it's morale and it's ability to secure further loans for other such fruitless adventures at wars!!secondly it deminished the ability to safely "convoy" "new world cargoes" for years leaving them defenseless to the elisabethan "sea-rovers" like hawkins,sir francis drake,shelvlocke and others after the disasterous final tally of losses in men,ships of all sorts,equipment,cannon and skilled naval personnel to make new vessels to replace the losses!!!a generation had been lost and all of their skills and talents were lost with them and had to be re-learned all over again by slow and laborious trial and error methods!!

Answer 2

First, the investment in the building up, maintaining, and training of a fleet of that size was extremely costly. Add in the cost to attempt to repair and replace those ships and it was a HUGE economic blow to Spain. Also, the loss of that many good ships, captains and men, allowed for easier pickings for the pirates and privateers in the Caribbean, contributing to the economic loss when the pirates took wealth that would have arrived in Spain.

Second, at the time Spain had the largest and most militarily capable navy in the entire world by a large majority. When Spain lost that many ships of the Armada, it suddenly brought them back to the pack in number and quality of ships, which in the succeeding centuries would allow France and England to surpass Spain's naval strength.

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Answer 3

The loss of the Spanish Armada took out almost all their ships along with thousands of trained fighting men which set them back for a long time in their plan to invade England.

And since the main damage was done by fewer, smaller, English ships and far fewer fighters, it was also a big embarrassment to the Spanish.

Answer 4

It's kind of tough to try and run colonies on the western side of the Atlantic from a nation on the east side of that ocean without a fleet of ships to move the goods and ships to protect that movement.
Plus, it was a source of national shame when Catholic Spain had been given the go-ahead to created all of those colonies and spread the Catholic faith in the process by the Pope himself in the Treaty of Saragosso.

Answer 5

it wounded their prestige,and also left their merchanct ships vunerable to piracy and rival nations