The British succeeded in driving Hold the Spanish back to their harbour after capturing Conquering the `` Conquistador '' and ran Control the vice-admiral 's ship `` Africa '' on shore , where she was blown up Destroying by her own crew after being totally dismasted Destroying and made Change helpless .

On the 40th anniversary of the bombing Attack , former Provisional IRA leader Martin McGuinness described Statement the events of that day as `` appalling and indefensible '' and `` inflicted Bodily_harm on totally innocent people ''

The city center , which mostly dated Social_event from medieval times , was totally destroyed Destroying in a firestorm .

In all , more than 73,000 structures were damaged Damaging , of which more than 14,500 were totally destroyed Destroying .