The Action of 12 December 1782 is a naval engagement fought off the coast of Spain near Ferrol, in which the British forty-gun fifth rate HMS Mediator successfully attackd a convoy of five armed ships.
Mediator succeeded in capturing one American privateer, the Alexander, then captures the French ex-ship of the line La Ménagère.
The convoy is part of Pierre Beaumarchais's supply chain to the American colonists.
