A Narration on "The Voyage of the Armada"

This is a narration I did this year on the book we read entitled, "The Voyage of the Armada", by David Howarth.

The question:

Explain why it was impossible for the English ships and the Spanish ships to truly fight with each other in the way they had been preparing to fight.

The answer:

When King Philip II sent the Spanish Armada to attack England, they went prepared to board the English ships and fight with soldiers, as had been the custom for warfare at sea for years. Their ships were bulky and slow, and on board were more soldiers than sailors.
The English, on the other hand, had prepared using a different type of warfare. Instead of doing battle with soldiers, as if on land, they designed their ships and guns for a battle for sailors. Their ships were race-built, a much lighter and sleeker (is this even a word?) ship than the Spanish Galleons. Thus, they could quickly move out of range of the Spaniards, and escape their fire easily.
Because the two countries prepared for two different kinds of warfare, neither was suited to fight the other. The Spanish couldn't, because they couldn't get close enough to board the English ships, and the English couldn't because they couldn't get close enough to effectively fire at the Armada. Thus, neither army really gained the victory over the other by their own might. Though the English were successful in expelling the Armada, they were disappointed that they had not been able to do as well as they thought they could have.