>>512467811spain had superior maritime technology. During islams peak golden years, the height of their society it was said their most technologically advanced state was al-andalus (modern day spain/portugal)
ship builders from all over europe including scandinavia would go there to learn during this period
when what is now spain and portugal completed the reconquista they now had possession of the worlds leading ship builders and technology
less than 50 years later Constantinople falls, the Spanish or portu send some 20-30 thousand troops into north morocco, thinking it would become the new silk road into europe
but after defeating the people there the sand niggers would no longer trade with them, so now these diegos got some tens of thousands of troops and large number of ships with nothing to do. they begin to send them westward into the Atlantic to look for a different trade route to asia, henry the navigator is born
the spanish exploit the americas, the wealth shipped back funds their war against the ottomans, its said there has never been a wealthier dynasty before or after, that the dollar sign $ was minted on their gold coins, the S symbolizing the new world and the old world, and the two lines running through it representing issabella and her king, the pillars of herculues watch over the med, the new pillars of the world watch over the new and old
william of orange, queen Elizabeth, Guy Fawkes and many other figures you know enter the scene in this same story
anyways long story short the spanish did have superior vessels at this time, british defeated them with strategy, not any technological superiority