2-637-113 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The 'Mediator' and the 'Alexander', c1784. The British ship HMS 'Mediator' captured the American ship 'Alexander' on 12 December 1782, during an engagement with a French and American convoy off Ferrol, Galicia, in north-west Spain. From Old Naval Prints, by Charles N. Robinson & Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Limited, London, 1924]