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Diego Flores de Valdés, commander of the Squadron of Castile.Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commander of the Squadron of Portugal and of the whole enterprise.The numbers of sailors and soldiers mentioned below are as given in the same survey and thus also relate to this date. This list is compiled by a survey drawn up by Medina Sidonia on the Armada's departure from Lisbon on and sent to Felipe II it was then published and quickly became available to the English. Each squadron was led by a flagship ( capitana) and a "vice-flagship" ( almiranta). The division into squadrons was for administrative purposes only upon sailing, the Armada could not keep to a formal order, and most ships sailed independently from the rest of their squadron. The Spanish Armada was the fleet that attempted to escort an army from Flanders as a part the Habsburg Spanish invasion of England in 1588, was divided into ten "squadrons" ( escuadras) The twenty galleons in the Squadrons of Portugal and of Castile, together with one more galleon in the Squadron of Andalucia and the four galleasses from Naples, constituted the only purpose-built warships (apart from the four galleys, which proved ineffective in the Atlantic waters and soon departed for safety in French ports) the rest of the Armada comprised armed merchantmen (mostly naos/carracks) and various ancillary vessels including urcas (storeships, termed "hulks"), zabras and pataches, pinnaces, and (not included in the formal count) caravels.